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True Image of the Holy Face of our <
j Lord Jesus Christ, Religiously venerated J
\ and kept in Rome, in the Basilica of Saint
> Peter, in the Vatican.

SISTER SAINT.PIERRE

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THE WORK OF REPARATION.

THE VERY REV. P ."JANVIER,.

Director of the Priests of the Holy Face at Tours.

TRANSLATED BY MISS MARY HOFFMAN.

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WLitb a fl>retace

THE RT. REY. MGR. T. S. PRESTON, Y.G., LLD,

Published for the Benefit of the Discalced Car-
melites of New Orleans, with an Appendix of
Prayers and Devotions for the Confra-
ternities of the Holy Face.

New York :
THE CATHOLIC PUBLICATION SOCIETY CO.,.

9 Barclay Street.
London : BURNS & OATES, 28 Orchard St.

1885.

imprimatur :

JOHN CARDINAL McCLOSKEY,

Archbishop of New York.
,April 12, 1885.

imprimatur:

4« CAROLUS,

Archiep* Turon,
16 Aprilis, 1882.

Malmouche, V. C.
]May 8, 1684.

CONTENTS.

PAGE

Preface, .9

Author's Preface, 15

LIFE OF SISTER SAINT-PIERRE.

Chap. I. Her Youth,' • • • 19

" II. Ucr Mission, • . . .27

M III. Her Revelations on the Reparation, . . . 41
44 IV. Her Revelations on the Holy Face, . . .51

44 V. Her Prayers for France, 61

" YL The Archconfraternity of the Reparation, . . 73

M VII. Her Virtues, 86

44 VIII. Her Last Sickness— Her Heath, .... 96
44 IX. The Confraternity of the Holy Face, . . .103

Conditions for "being Received into the Confraternity of the
Reparation of the Holy Face, 109

APPENDIX.— CONTAINING RULES, PRAYERS
AND DEVOTIONS FOR THE CONFRA-
TERNITY OF THE HOLY FACE.

Historical Notice, Il5

Rules of the Confraternity of the Holy Face, .... 117
Promises of Our Lord Jesus Christ in favor of all who Honor

his Holy Face, . . . . < . . .12$

Devotion to the Holy Face of Our Lord, . . . .132

Contents.

1»AGE

Pious Reflections upon the Holy Face, 134

Little Scapular of the Holy Face, 142

Little Chaplet of the Holy Face, 143

An Act of Resignation for the Sick, 145

A Collection of Prayers and Exercises, . . . . .146

Litany of the Holy Face, 162

Act of Reparation for Blasphemy and Irreverence, . .167
An Offering of the Infinite Merits of Our Lord Jesus Christ, 169
A Hundred Offerings of our Lord Jesus Christ to His Eternal

Father, 172

The Sacred Humanity of Jesus, 185

An Offering to the Eternal Father, 189

A Little Exercise in Honor of the Five Wounds, . . .194

A Prayer for the Church, 196

Devotions in Honor of the Holy Infant Jesus, . . .198

Gospel of the Holy Name of Jesus, 202

Prayers in Honor of the Maternity of the Blessed Virgin

Mary, 205

Sister Saint-Pierre's Prayer to the Queen of Carmel, . . 209

Our Lady of La Salette, . 210

Forty Days' Prayer for the Needs of the Church and State, . 213
Salutation to the Holy Veil of St. Veronica, .... 214
Canticles in Honor of the Holy Face, . . . . .215

A Rhythm, 222-225

Devout Address to the Sacred Face, 227

PREFACE.

HE following work is a transla-
tion of the brief Life of Sister
Saint-Pierre which was pub-
lished by the Rev. Father Janvier at
Tours in 1882 with the approbation of
his archbishop. Her own account of her
experiences, and remarkable manifesta-
tions of the divine favor, has been al-
ready given to the public by the in-
strumentality of the Carmelite Nuns of
New Orleans.* This Life, collated and
completed by means of her letters and
the annals of her monastery, was pub-
lished by the Rev. P. Janvier, Dean

* Life of Sister Saint-Pierre, a Carmelite of Tours. Writ-
ten by herself. Baltimore: John Murphy & Co. 1884.
9

10 Preface,

of the Metropolitan Church of Tours
and Director of the Priests of the Holy
Face. It bears the imprimatur of the
Archbishop of Tours ; and the English
translation is approved by the Arch-
bishops of Baltimore and New Orleans,
and by other prelates.

The present work by the devoted Fa-
ther Janvier is, as he explains in his
preface, an attempt to give the principal
facts in the life of the saintly Carmelite,
with an account of the Work of Repa-
ration to which the Confraternity of the
Holy Face is consecrated. We think it
will be read by pious Catholics with
much edification and profit. His Grace
of Baltimore tells us that " her Life is
calculated to promote piety and edifica-
tion not only in cloistered institutions,
but also in the ranks of the secular life."

The Archbishop of New Orleans warm-
ly approves and recommends it, and de-

Preface. 11

clares "that lie will be glad to see it
rapidly diffused amoDg the faithful, who
will find it a treasure of edification and
instruction calculated to inspire them
with devotion to the Holy Face." The
question of the virtues of Sister Saint-
Pierre has not been raised at Rome, and
the Holy See has thus far decided no-
thing in regard to the supernatural charac-
ter of the revelations which she received.
But, with the approbation of the Su-
preme Pontiff, the Confraternity of the
Holy Face has been established, and
there can be no reason to doubt the
many miracles wrought through the in-
strumentality of M. Dupont, the Holy
Man of Tours. The Confraternity of the-
Holy Face was established at St. Dizier in
1847, and at Tours in 1876, where now
there is an association of priests espe-
cially devoted to its interests. It has
been enriched by indulgences granted by

12 Preface.

Pius IX. of blessed memory, and Leo
XIII. gloriously reigning.

The brief of Leo XIII. dated Decem-
ber 9, 1884, recognizes the confraternity
at Tours as legitimately established, and,
" in order that it may daily increase,
opens the treasures of the Church to its
members who shall perform the devo-
tions recommended by the rule." These
indulgences are also applicable to the
souls in Purgatory. Indulgences, both
plenary and partial, had been accorded
by His Holiness Pius IX. in 1847, 1848,
and 1876.

With this high sanction the confra-
ternity has been erected in the United
States.

This work, wThich now we recommend
to the devout lovers of Jesus Christ, will
fully, though briefly, explain the end of
the devotion to the Holy Face of our
Lord. By exciting in our souls a

Preface. 13

stronger personal love to our Redeemer
it will lead us to a life more in union
with Him. His blessed Face, which re-
presents to us not only all the sorrows
which He endured for our salvation, but
also all the sweetness of His Sacred
Heart, will be before us to attract us
more powerfully day by day. It will
wean us from sin, from the love of the
world, and even from our own foolish
pride. Then, with true loyalty, we will
be able to make reparation to Him by
deeds and words which love prompts
and sanctifies. If there be a blessed
work on earth, it is that of reparation.
If there be an affection which can have
complete power over the heart and intel-
ligence, it is the love of our dearest Lord
and Saviour. We are convinced that the
devotion to the Holy Face will be the
means of sanctifying many souls, and
that it is especially suitable to the

14 Preface,

needs of our day. The great Master
and Teacher of holiness will accom-
plish much in us, if we will only seek
to live in His sight and obey the mo-
tions of His grace. May Pie, of His in-
finite mercy, deign to show us the light
of His countenance, and to look with
love and blessing upon our feeble efforts
to extend His reign in the hearts of
men !

T. S. P.

New York, April 12, 1885.

author's preface.

[HIS little book has long been
earnestly desired. Friends of
the Carmelites and readers of
the Life of Sister Saint-Pierre, written
by herself, have asked an abridgment
of it which should be the counterpart
of our notice on M. Dupont and the
Work of the Holy Face. In respond-
ing to this desire we have neglected no-
thing which could render this pious his-
tory interesting and popular, and at the
same time make it serve as a means of
propagating the Holy Work of Repara-
tion. In this we believe we are obey-
ing the orders of our Lord transmitted

16 Authors Preface.

to his servant. " The Lord," says she,
" asks of France a Work of Reparation
which will be for her the rainbow of
mercy. Ah ! if it were extended to all
the dioceses, all the cities, I would be
without uneasiness, for God is faithful
to his promises. ... I have always said,
and I still repeat it : it is this which is
to disarm the justice of God and sa/oe
France. Happy if they know how to
profit by this means of salvation ! "

A pious and eloquent layman recently
said : " The social edifice is falling into
ruins. Humanly s]3eaking, nothing can
sustain it. Perhaps you rely on God ?
On God ! — as individuals, granted ; but as
a nation? Has not France driven him
from her government, her laws, her
morals ? On God ! when everywhere his
Name is blasphemed ? On God ! when
his day is profaned and his Church at-
tacked? All that is happening to us,

Author's Preface. 17

is it not the expression of his just an-
ger ? Is it not precisely this anger that
is first to be appeased ? In truth, this
accomplished, salvation becomes possible ;
'for if God is for us who shall be against
us f ' Now, the sure means of softening
his anger, and consequently the great
means of salvation — the one which God
himself, before reducing us to extremi-
ties, has deigned to recommend — is Repa-
ration." *

O you who love the Church and France,
read, and from the teachings of the pious
Carmelite of Tours learn in what consists
this Reparation, and, in acting upon it,
what you have to do. P. Janvier.

Festival op the Finding op the Holt Cross,
May 3, 1882.

* Allocution of General Foloppe, November 12, 1881.

Sister Saint-Pierre.

CHAPTER I.

HER YOUTH.

jjT is to Catholic Brittany, strong in
faith and great in heroic virtues,
that we are indebted for having
given us Marie de Saint-Pierre. She
was born at Rennes on the 4th of October,
1816. At her baptism she was given the
same patrons as her father and mother —
St. Peter, Prince of the Apostles, and St.
Francis of Assisium : Frangoise-Perrine
being derivatives of these names. Her
father, Pierre Elnere, was a locksmith by
profession. He married Frangoise Portier,
who bore him twelve children. This
couple were fervent Christians. The fa-

20 Sister Saint-Pierre.

ther daily assisted at Mass, every even-
ing visited the Blessed Sacrament, and
during the day still found time to pray.
He early taught his little daughter the
practice of the Way of the Cross, and the
mother instilled in her a tender devotion
to the Blessed Virgin. Little Perrine was
often sick and had a disposition difficult
to manage. But, thanks to the guidance
of her pious parents, she early learned to
govern it and to overcome her faults.
From childhood she had a deep abhorrence
of sin, and bitterly reproached herself for
the slightest imperfections. Her eldest
sister, finding her one day in tears, asked
her the cause of them. "I weep for my
sins," she artlessly answered.

Another day a poor blind man, miser-
ably dressed, passed before the house. He
had lost his way, and paused at the corner
of the street, waiting for some charitable
hand to set him right. A secret instinct
warned the child that here was an occa-
sion to curb her pride and self-love. Sud-

Sister Saint-Pierre. 21

denly darting out, she took his arm, and,
giving him her hand, she led him whither
he wished to go. Whenever anything
disagreeable happened to her she check-
ed her impatience, saying : " My God ? I
offer thee this in expiation for my sins."
She had such a dread of evil that, hav-
ing at the age of eight years an uneasi-
ness respecting a little story-book that
had been loaned to her, she carried it to
her parish priest and asked his advice.
When she learned from him that, without
being bad, it was a frivolous book, she
immediately returned it without having
read the first page. The remembrance
of the sufferings of our Lord deeply af-
fected her. She thought her sins the
cause of his sorrows and pains ; confused
and contrite, she would say : " O my
Saviour! didst thou see even then, dur-
ing your Passion, that I would one day be
converted and belong entirely to thee?"
She often made the Way of the Cross,
kissing the earth at each Station. But

22 Sister Saint-Pierre.

her chief attraction was mental prayer.
At first, not knowing the method, she
recited her prayers with great attention,
waiting till God should make known to
her this holy exercise. She had not long
to wait. When she was but ten years
old she heard a sermon on the subject
which shed a bright light on her mind
and heart, and soon made her proficient
in this science of the saints.

At twelve years of age she lost her
mother. Like St. Teresa at the same
age and under similar circumstances, she
ran in her wild grief to Mary, threw her-
self at her feet, and implored her to be
a mother to her in the place of the one
that had been taken from her. The
Queen of Heaven adopted, in fact, this
innocent soul, and gave her through all
her life sensible proofs of her maternal
care. As her father was burdened with
a large family, he confided her to the
care of two aunts, who were persons of
great piety. They kept a large store for

Sister Saint-Pierre. 23

the sale of seamstresses' work, and had a
number of young women in their em-
ploy. There Perrine made new progress
in virtue, was a model to her companions,
and even to several of them became a
preceptress of the Interior Life, striving
to make them love and practise mental
prayer, in order to be more united to
God. She seized every opportunity of
devoting herself to works of mercy, such
as succoring the poor and visiting and
assisting the dying. ISTear to Mr. El-
nere's house a poor family came to live,
consisting of three members — the father
(a day-laborer), his blind wife, and a little
boy four or five years old. The young
girl looked upon them as the image of
the Holy Family of Bethlehem. She
conceived for them a great affection, and
6pared no care to relieve their poverty ;
she often visited them, instructed them
in their religion, made them approach
the Sacraments, and, when there was any
disturbance, restored peace in the house-

24 Sister Saint-Pierre.

hold. Soon after she devoted herself to
nursing a poor young woman, who died
in her arms. Receiving her last sigh,
she hesitated not with her own hands to
prepare her for burial, notwithstanding
the fear she had of death, and to which
she had never before been in such close
proximity.

For a moment, however, this soul so
pure was on the point of being seduced
by the frivolities of the world. She at
first relaxed her fervor and had the mis-
fortune to make a few concessions to
vanity. God, in love and mercy, pun-
ished her. Pressed by remorse, and hav-
ing, as a member of the confraternity, to
prepare herself for a festival of the Bless-
ed Yirgin, she undertook to make a good
and serious retreat. She then felt the in-
terior workings of grace, and came forth
from these exercises completely changed,
resolved more than ever to live for God
alone. The desire for a religious life
which she had already experienced de-

Sister Saint-Pierre. 25

veloped itself strongly in her heart. It
was the sole object of her thoughts, of
her burning desires. For this end she
imposed fasts on herself and made pil-
grimages in honor of the Blessed Virgin
and St. Joseph. She also addressed her-
self to St. Martin, the illustrious Bishop
of Tours, for whom she had a great de-
votion, supplicating him to receive her
as a religious in his diocese, though' she
did not then know that any Carmelites
were there.

Still she was agitated by perplexities.
Her confessor, who was a man of God,
wished to test her vocation. For five
years he made her undergo numerous and
painful humiliations. At the end of this
time she was inspired to make a pilgrim-
age to a celebrated chapel of the Holy
Virgin in the vicinity of Eennes — Our
Lady of La Peiniere. There she clearly
perceived that God called her to serve
him by the practice of religious vows.
All her yearnings drew her towards Car-

26 Sister Saint-Pierre.

mel, while her confessor appeared desirous
she should enter the order of the Hospi-
tal Sisters. But as she was returning
from her pilgrimage our Lord, after Holy
Communion, made her interiorly hear
these words : " My daughter, I love you
too much to abandon you longer to your
perplexities. You will not he a Hospi-
taliere, hut a Carmelite" The interior
voice repeated this several times, "You
will he a Carmelite " / and she believed
the last time was added, " Carmelite at
Tours" In the meantime her confessor,
without informing her of the fact, had
proposed her as an applicant. Therefore
what was her astonishment and joy when
she heard him say : " My daughter, you
are received among the Carmelites " !
She left Rennes on the 11th of Novem-
ber, 1839, under the auspices of St. Mar-
tin, whom she had not uselessly invoked.
Her virtuous father accompanied and pre-
sented her himself. She was then twen-
ty-three years of age.

CHAPTER IL

HER MISSION.

JN the Carmelite convent Perrine
gratefully felt she was in her
proper place. The fire of di-
vine love filled her soul. From the first
her companions recognized in her a solid
judgment united with a cheerful, equa-
ble disposition ; she was reserved and
very discreet ; she shunned all self-seek-
ing and singularity; her modesty, morti-
fication, and obedience were most exem-
plary. The candor and tranquillity of
her face mirrored the innocence and se-
renity of her soul. A sweet simplicity
characterized this elevated nature, as may
be judged by the following trait.

On the day of her arrival, during the

28 Sister Saint- Pierre.

hour of recreation, she was invited to
sing. Without waiting to be urged, she
at once began to sing a canticle which,
she says, "I had sung in advance while
awaiting the fortunate day of my entrance
into Carmel ; it commences with these
words : ' Blessed be God, I am in a re-
fuge.' . . . They were composed of some
fifteen stanzas, and 1 sang them in so
joyous a manner that no one thought of
interrupting me." The new-comer did
not seem disposed to leave one stanza un-
sung, when suddenly the Mother-Prioress,
at first absent, came in. Finding one sing-
ing and the others attentively listening, she
judged it a fitting opportunity for giving
the new postulant her first trial. " In-
deed, you have been in a hurry," said she
to the latter, "to show off your little
talent ! " An embarrassing silence fol-
lowed, which was broken only when the
Mother-Prioress turned to the singer and
said : " Let us see if you know any
more." "Oh! yes, Reverend Mother,"

Sister Saint-Pierre. 29

she answered; "I have kept the best
for you." And without betraying the least
annoyance or ill-nature, she began anew.
They knew then that the little girl from
Brittany, by virtue and temperament, was
not one ready to take offence or be easily
depressed ; that she possessed the cheer-
fulness which St. Teresa held as one of
the proofs of a vocation to Carmel.

Her first interior attraction was a ten-
der devotion to the Divine Infancy of
Jesus. " I looked on myself," she says,
" as a little servant of the Holy Family,
and consecrated myself to them in that
capacity." She mentions having still
another ambition, wThich, with a charming
candor, she thus explains : " The Reverend
Mothers were making their annual retreat,
and during that time the postulants and
novices took their recreation in the no-
vitiate. One evening during recreation,
when we were all collected before a pic-
ture of the Holy Family, I proposed to
make a little Bethlehem for the Holy

30 Sister Saint-Pierre.

Family, each of us to especially conse-
crate ourselves to serve it in the capacity
of that beast of burden which should fall
to her lot ; for instance, one would repre-
sent the ass, another the ox, and so on.
The proposal was unanimously adopted.*'
The lots were drawn, and, to her great
satisfaction, she was chosen to represent
the ass of the Infant Jesus. " Thus,"
she says, "I was his ass in prayer, striv-
ing to warm him by my love ; and his
little servant in my actions, imagining
myself in the house of Nazareth, and
performing as if for the Holy Family all
the daily duties of my state of life."

She was inspired to honor the Infant
Jesus each day of the month by meditat-
ing, one after another, 'on the different
mysteries of this period of his life. Thus
the thoughts of the Divine Child fol-
lowed her in all her actions, and rendered
every occupation easy and agreeable.

On the 8th of June, 1841, she made her
profession. To the names which she had

Sister Saint-Pierre. 31

borne since her novitiate, and which placed
her under the protection of the Queen of
Angels and the Chief of the Apostles, her
devotion for the Holy Family suggested
an additional title. Henceforth Perrine
Elnere will be known as Sister Marie de
Saint-Pierre of the Holy Family.

The Prioress of the Carmelites of Tours
at this time was Mother Marie of the
Incarnation, a religious as eminent fa'
her prudence as for her exalted virtues.
She at once employed the newly-profess-
ed in different manual labors, and after-
wards gave her the office of portress.
This office, so contrary to her natural in-
clinations, was the means Providence used
to elevate her to the highest degree of
perfection. The pious Sister dreaded its
duties, fearing she would not be able to
unite with them the spirit of recollection
which was so dear to her. Respectfully
she made known to the Reverend Mother-
Prioress her distaste and fears ; notwith-
standing which the Mother-Prioress re-

32 Sister Saint-Pierre. 1

tained her in this employment, and she
kept it all her life. This disposition was
providential; for thus the humble daugh-
ter of the cloister in the performance of
her duties frequently found herself in
relation with pious secular persons who
later on were not slow to aid her in her
Work of the Reparation.

This mission, for which, during the four
years she had been in the convent, grace
was secretly preparing her, was to be
conferred on her by our Lord himself.
It was the 26th of August, 1843, the day
after the Feast of Saint Louis, King of
Prance ; in the evening the Sister was
meditating at the foot of the cross, when
the Saviour said to her:

"I have heard your sighs; I have seen
the desire you have to glorify me. My
Name is everywhere blasphemed ; even the
children blaspheme! This frightful sin
more deeply than all others wounds my
Divine Heart / by blasphemy the sinner
scorns me to my face, openly attaclcs me,

Sister Saint-Pierre. 33

annihilates my Redemption, and pronoun-
ces his own condemnation and judgment.
Blasphemy is an impoisoned arrow which
wounds my Heart continually. 1 will
give you a Golden Arrow, that with the
delicious wounds of love you may heal
the wounds of malice which sinners give
me" And lie dictated to her the follow-
ing formula: "May the most sacred,
most adorable, most incomprehensible, and
most ineffable Name of God be praised,
blessed, loved, adored, and glorified in
heaven, on earth, and in hell, by all the
creatures of God, and by the Sacred Heart
of our Lord Jesus Christ in the Most Holy
Sacrament of the Altar. Amen."

Such was the Golden Arrow that the
Lord gave to his servant, assuring her
that every time she repeated this formula
of praise she would wound his Heart
with a wound of love. "Be watchful of
this favor," said he to her ; u I shall ask
of you an account of it." At that mo-
ment it seemed she beheld issuing from

34 Sister Saint-Pierre.

the Sacred Heart of Jesus, wounded by
this arrow, torrents of graces for the con-
version of sinners, which inspired her
.with confidence to say : " My Lord, dost
thou then give me charge of blasphemers ? "
She did not fail to make known all
this to the Mother-Prioress, who, being as
prudent as she was experienced, wished
to prove and assure herself it was not an
illusion. She consulted pious and learned
ecclesiastics, and closely watched the con-
duct of the Sister. Far from encourag-
ing her in this extraordinary way, she en-
deavored to turn her from it. She even
forbade her to recite certain prayers which
had been recommended. But several in-
cidents which she could not but look
upon as miraculous — among them her
own cure, obtained by the prayers of the
Sister in accordance with the order of
our Lord, and in the manner he himself
willed — decided her to relax her severity
towards her and to permit her at least
to say the prayers of Separation.

Sister Saint-Pierre. 35

Our Lord continued to reiterate his
orders to his servant. The poor Sister
would sometimes exclaim : " Ah ! if the
Divine Master could suffer bitterness, he
would be sorrowful unto death on behold-
ing men, instead of making up for their
insufficiency by uniting themselves to him
and thus glorifying our Heavenly Father,
continually blaspheming his holy Name
and united with Lucifer and his repro-
bates. How satisfied, on the contrary, he
would feel to see at least a few faithful
and grateful children joined to him to
love and bless the Name of that Father
whom he so tenderly loves ! "

This view of the question brought her
to make a heroic act of entire abandon-
ment. "I feel myself," she says, "in-
teriorly urged to make to God the sacri-
fice of my whole being and all the merits
which I can acquire." But she submis-
sively awaited the consent of her Prior-
ess.

On the festival of St. John of the

36 Sister Saint-Pierre.

Cross, one of the patrons of Carmel, our
Lord made Ids spouse hear these momen-
tous words : " Till now I have only
shown you in part the designs of my
Heart, but to-day I wish to show you
them in their entirety. The earth is
covered with crimes. The violation of
the first three Commandments of God
has irritated my Father y the holy Name
of God blasphemed, and the holy day of
the Lord profaned, fill the measure of
iniquities. These sins have mounted to
the throne of God and provoked his
wrath, which will soon burst forth if his
justice is not appeased. At no time have
these crimes ascended so high. 1 desire,
with an ardent desire, that there be form-
ed an association, well approved and or-
ganized, to honor the Name of my Father"
Here the object of the Work of Re-
paration is clearly indicated : it is to re-
pair the violation of the first three pre-
cepts of the Decalogue, which include
all crimes that have a special character

Sister Saint-Pierre. 37

of hostility against God and the profana-
tion of the Lord's day.

Amazed and confused, the humble
.daughter of Carmel hesitated. But our
Lord said to her : " Take good care ; for
if, wanting in simplicity, you put ob-
stacles to my designs, you will be re-
sponsible for the salvation of many souls ;
if, on the contrary, you are faithful, they
will embellish your crown." In conclu-
sion lie said : " And to wiiom should I
address myself, if not to a Carmelite,
whose very vocation enjoins on her the
duty of unceasingly glorifying my Name?*'

Thirteen days after, on the eve of the
Immaculate Conception (7th of Decem-
ber), the Blessed Saviour returned to the
same subject, and this time the culpable
nation is named. He made the Sister
see how greatly he was incensed against
France on account of her blasphemies.
" He lias declared to me," she says, " that
he cannot longer dwell in this France,
which, like a viper, tears the bowels of

38 Sister Saint-Pierre,

his mercy. He still patiently bears the
contempt shown himself, but the out-
rages committed against his Eternal Fa-
ther provoke his wrath. France has
sucked unto blood the paps of his mercy ;
this is why justice will now take the
place of mercy, and his wrath burst forth
with greater fury for having been longer
delayed. Filled with terror, I trembling-
ly said : ' My Lord, permit me to ask if
this Reparation which thou desirest be
made, wilt thou yet pardon France ? '
He answered me: 4I will pardon her
once more; but, mark well, once. As
this crime of blasphemy extends over the
whole kingdom, and as it is public, so
also must the Reparation be public and
extend to all her cities. Woe to those
who will not make this Reparation!'"

What Frenchman's heart could hear
unmoved warnings so severe, so solemn ?
The reproach, alas ! is but too well merit-
ed, for the crime is evident and incon-
testable. Everywhere among us do we

Sister Saint-Pierre. 39

hear incessantly uttered with impunity
that blasphemy designated by our Lord
to his servant as a frightful sin. France
is pronounced the most guilty of all na-
tions, because she is the most highly fa-
vored by Heaven, the most loved of
Christ, and the eldest daughter of the
Church. Having become in Europe the
principal centre of the spirit of revolur
tion by the practical atheism she pro-
fesses in her laws and government, she
exerts in regard to blasphemy a kind of
universal proselytism, as baneful to in-
dividuals as it is to society. Is it aston-
ishing, then, that she is especially threat-
ened with the strokes of Divine Justice?
After receiving this communication Sis-
ter Marie de Saint-Pierre, as we learn
from one of the other Carmelites, came
from the choir in a state difficult to de-
scribe. She was deathly pale and bathed
in tears ; her countenance, usually so
cheerful, bore an impress of suffering
which it long retained. She appeared as

40 Sister Saint-Pierre.

if crushed, annihilated beneath the weight
of divine wrath.

In the midst of her anguish a great
consolation was vouchsafed her. She
learned that the Sovereign Pontiff, Gre-
gory XVI., had, by a brief dated August
8, 1843, permitted the establishment of
pious Confraternities for the Extirpation
of Blasphemy. "I no longer doubted,"
she says, "that the work entrusted to
me came from God. What particularly
struck me and awakened my admiration
was the following happy coincidence in
this manifestation of Divine Providence :
On the 8th of August the Sovereign
Pontiff issued Ms brief at Rome, and on
the 26th of the same month, and in the
same year, the day after the festival of
Saint Louis, our Lord revealed to an ob-
scure little Carmelite this great Work in
Reparation for blasphemy with which he
wished to enrich France as a means of
salvation, to snatch her from the hands
of his offended and irritated justice."

CHAPTER III.

HER REVELATIONS OK THE REPARATION.

N" Cliristmas night of 1843, hav.
ing obtained the permission of
her Superiors, the Sister made,
according to the reiterated demands of
our Lord, "an act placing all her merits
in the ha^ds of the Most Holy Infant
Jesus." As a reward she was favored
with still more abundant lights and
graces. " It seems," she says, " that I
hear Jesus from the depths of the taber-
nacle addressing us these words : ' O ye
my friends and faithful children, behold
if there be any sorrow like unto mine!
My Divine Father and my spouse, the
holy Church, the delight of my Heart,

42 Sister Saint-Pierre.

are despised and outraged by my enemies.
Will no one rise up . to console me by
defending them against those who attack
them? I can no longer remain in the
midst of this ungrateful people. Behold
the torrent of tears that flow from my
eyes ! Can I find none to wipe them
away by making reparation to the glory
of my Father and imploring the conver-
sion of the guilty ? ' Ah ! " cries the
pious Sister, "if a king, or even his am-
bassador, be treated with indignity by a
foreign power, how quickly the whole na-
tion rushes to arms to avenge the insult!
Troops are mustered, and the death of
numberless soldiers is accounted as no-
thing. And yet the holy and terrible
ISTame of the God of hosts, of the King
of kings, is despised and blasphemed, his
day is profaned by sinners in infinite
numbers, and no one is troubled thereat,
no one thinks of Reparation. Behold, our
Lord Jesus, the Envoy and Son of the
God of armies, the Ambassador of the

Sister Saint-Pierre. 43

kingdom of heaven, demands a Repara-
tion of honor to his Eternal Father, or
■war will be declared against us and
France will suffer the chastisements of
his wrath. "Will we pause to weigh the
matter ? Will we hesitate in our choice ? "
The Archbishop of Tours, who at that
time was Mgr. Morlot, wished to see
and examine the* writings of the Carmel-
ite. We say her "writings," because the
Mother-Prioress had required her to write
all her revelations. The prelate approved
in this regard the wisdom of her Supe-
riors, and authorized Rev. Pierre Aile-
ron, Superior of the Carmelites, and at
the same time pastor of Notre Dame La
Riche, to establish in his parish an Asso-
ciation for the Reparation of Blasphemy.
This was on the model of the one in
Rome, approved by Gregory XVI. Au-
gust 8, 1843. Its members were thus
enabled to gain the numerous spiritual
advantages granted to the Roman asso-
ciation. The permission of Mgr. Morlot

44 Sister Saint-Pierre.

is dated March 15, 1844. The associa-
tion, on being established, took for its
patrons St. Michael the Archangel, St.
Louis, King of France, and St. Martin.
Those that belonged to it were to recite
daily a jPater, Ave, Gloria, and the
Golden Arrow before mentioned.

This, without doubt, was something —
a first step towards the iW'ork of Repara-
tion. But more was required — namely,
an archconfraternity similar to that of
Our. Lady of Victory for the Conversion
of Sinners. The Sister was very sorrow-
ful. They saw her coming from her
prayers pale, trembling, and bathed in
tears. She continually offered herself in
sacrifice to turn away the* divine scourges
and obtain the salvation of her country.
On learning that the usual prayer of St.
Denis was " Give me souls ! " she un-
ceasingly repeated it, and begged the Sis-
ters to do the same. In the meantime
the Divine Master revealed to her more
and more the enormity of blasphemy.

Sister Saint-Pierre. 45

" Yon cannot understand," He said to her
one day, "the malice and abomination of
this sin. If my justice were not re-
strained by my mercy it would instantly
crush the guilty, and all creatures, even
inanimate ones, would rise up to avenge
my outraged honor." " After this," the
Sister adds, " he showed me the excel-
lence of the Work of Reparation ; how
it surpasses all other devotions, is agree-
able to God, to the angels, the saints,
and is useful to the Church. Ah ! if
you knew the degree of glory you ac-
quire in making but a single act of Re-
paration for blasphemy, in saying only
once, in the spirit of Reparation, ' Ad-
mirable is the Name of God ' ! "

She again wrote : " This work is with-
in me as a consuming fire. I continu-
ally beg our Lord to deign to save France ;
to establish in all her cities his "Work of
Reparation, and to raise up apostolic men
for this end. Thou seest, my sweet
Jesus, that I, a poor unworthy creature,

46 Sister Saint-Pierre.

can do nothing ; vouchsafe, then, to en-
lighten the heart of him who can render
thee this service with the knowledge of
all that I suffer.'5

The Carmelites, forced to leave their
monastery, lived for two years in a secu-
lar dwelling where cloister enclosure was
almost impossible. Sister Saint-Pierre, still
in her office . of portress of the interi-
or, had much to suffer. But our Lord,
in the very midst of the embarrassments
and distractions of her charge, consoled
her with new and consoling lights. In
her great desire to comfort and strength-
en those who came to her with their
sorrows, she was inspired to communi-
cate to them the devotion of the Gospel
of the Circumcision, and of the Holy
Name. Thus she writes of this devo-
tion : " The demon uses all possible
means to snatch from our Lord Jesus
Christ the inheritance purchased by the
cross, and he is ever seeking to rob this
Good Shepherd of the lambs obtained at

Sister Saint-Pierre. 47

so great a price. To put this ravishing
wolf to flight Jesus has made known to
me that he wishes his sheep marked with
his Holy Name, by bearing on their per-
son the Gospel which announces to all na-
tions that the Incarnate Word was named
Jesus. This amiable Saviour has ac-
quainted me with the virtue of his Sa-
cred Name — that it would drive away
the demon, and that all those placing
themselves under its special protection
would receive great graces." Her supe-
riors permitted her to distribute printed ■
sheets of this Gospel on which was
stamped an image of the Infant Jesus.
To this was added a piece of the palm
blessed on Palm Sunday. These sheets
were folded and enclosed in a little
square sachet, marked upon the outside
with the Sacred Heart and the instru-
ments of the Passion. It was to be worn
on the person in the same way as a
medal attached to a scapular, etc. The
pious Carmelite had thus in view the glo-

48 Sister Saint-Pierre.

rification of the Name of Jesus. Nu-
merous graces came to confirm her faith
and make her rejoice in the devotion.
Every one wished to have these little
sachets. On the sheets, beneath the Gos-
pel, these words were inscribed :

" When Jesus was named,
Satan, vanquished, was disarmed."

" Our Lord has revealed to me," says
the Sister, "how glorious it is to him to
have his victory celebrated by these
words, for they make the demon tremble
with rage ; that he will bless all who
wear this Gospel, and will defend them
against the attacks of Satan.55 (See p. 202.)

On the 17th of June, 1845, the Divine
Master resumed his great design, and
encouraged his servant to address the
archbishop personally. The prelate very
kindly visited the holy Carmelite, whose
virtues he held in the highest esteem.
Ushered into his presence, she knelt,
kissed his feet, and humbly asked him

Sister Saint- Pierre. 49

to deign to accomplish the work he had
so happily begun in authorizing the As-
sociation of Notre Dame La Riche; and
she disclosed to him how strongly our
Lord had urged her to request the official
establishment of the Work of Reparation
in the metropolis of Tours, formerly the
centre of so many graces for France.
In the kindest manner the prelate an-
swered: "" My child, with all my heart I
desire to establish the work and give it
all necessary and well- deserved publicity ;
but there are obstacles in the way which
are difficult to overcome. It is a hard
task for us to incite our people to follow
the ordinary practices of piety. Might
not the proposal of new and additional
devotions provoke the wicked to still
greater blasphemy % " Nevertheless he
reassured her by declaring he saw in her
revelations no stamp of illusion, but re-
cognized in them the seal of God; and
he exhorted her to still pray and solicit
new light on the subject. He permitted

50 Sister Saint-Pierre.

her to recite the prayers of Reparation,
and some time after accorded permission
to have them printed. He also approved
of a little book on blasphemy entitled
Collection of Prayers, followed by " Little
Office of the Holy Name of God," com-
posed by M. Dupont.

"This little book," says the Sister,
" authorized by the archbishop, at once
became very popular, and by this • means
in a short time more than twenty-five
thousand Prayers of the Reparation were
distributed. Tours received numberless
applications for them from persons in
various cities who wished to propagate
this devotion to the Holy Name of God,
and everywhere they were recited with
the greatest fervor. Our Lord revealed
to me that this new harmony appeased
his wrath, but that he still wished to
have an association established such as
he had demanded."

CHAPTER TV.

HER REVELATIONS ON TEE HOLT FACE.

BEYING- the archbishop's coun-
sels, Sister Saint-Pierre began
to pray with renewed fervor for
greater light regarding the establishment
of the Work of Reparation. But it pleased
the Divine Master to lead his servant
once more through the* path of interior
trials. She was assailed with fears and
doubts; terrible temptations met her at
every turn ; all sensible consolations were
withdrawn ; she felt that her soul had lost
even sanctifying grace, and in her agony
she hardly dared receive Holy Commu-
nion. One day, while awaiting the hour
of Mass, and hesitating as to whether
she should approach the holy table, she
thought that this Bread of the Strong

52 Sister Saint-Pierre.

would infuse courage. She seized with
renewed faith her crucifix, and, recalling
to mind that Jesus had said that the Act of
Praise called the Golden -Arrow delight-
fully wounded his Heart, she pronounced
this formula ten times in succession and
resolved to receive Holy Communion in
Reparation for blasphemy. Nothing more
was needed to touch the Heart of the
Heavenly Spouse. This fervent, loving
soul was filled with consolations, and the
Mystery of the Sorrowful Face of Christ
was suddenly revealed to her. She felt
herself transported in spirit to the road to
Calvary. " There," she says, "our Lord
vividly portrayed to me the pious act of
Veronica, who with her veil wiped his
most Holy Face, covered with spittle,
dust, sweat, and blood. This Divine
Saviour made . me understand that the
impious at present, by their blasphemies,
renewed the outrages formerly inflicted
on his Holy Face. All the blasphemies
hurled against the Divinity, whom they

Sister Saint-Pierre. 53

cannot reach, fall back, like the spittle
of the Jews, upon the Face of our Lord,
who has offered himself a victim for
sinners. Then he told me I must imi-
tate the zeal of the pious Veronica, who
so courageously braved the crowd of his
enemies to reach him, and he gave her
to me as a protectress and model. By-
promoting the Reparation for blasphemy
we render him the same service as did
this heroic Jewish woman, and he looks
upon those who thus act with the same
complacency as when he gazed upon her
on his way to Calvary." All the purpose
of the Reparation is here in the germ.
We shall behold it developing in the suc-
ceeding revelations. Henceforth the Sis-
ter applied herself to rendering homage
to the Holy Face. "I believe," she
says, " I am under the special protection
of the pious Veronica; I am continually
occupied in adoring the August and Most
Holy Face of the Divine Saviour. This
Adorable Face is the mirror of the per-

54 Sister Saint-Pierre.

fections contained in the Most Holy Name
of God." "I comprehended/' she says,
"that as the Sacred Heart of Jesus is
the sensible object offered to our adora-
tion, to represent his boundless love in
the Most Holy Sacrament of the Altar;
so in the Work of the Reparation our
Lord's Face is the sensible object offer-
ed to the adoration of the Associates,
to atone for the outrages of blasphemers,
who attack the Divinity, of which it is
the mirror and expression. By virtue of
this Adorable Face presented to the Eter-
nal Father we can appease his just wrath
and obtain the conversion of the impious
and blasphemers." Our Lord favored his
servant with still other lights. He made
her comprehend that the Church is his
mystical body, and religion the face of
that body. uHe then showed me," she
says, u that this face is to-day a butt for
the enemies of, his Holy Name ; and I
saw, by means of this divine light, that
the impious, by wicked words and bias-

Sister Saint-Pierre. 55

phemy against the Holy Name of God,
spit upon the Saviour's Face and cover
it with mud; that all the blows given to
Holy Church and religion by sectarians
are a renewal of the numerous buffets
which the Holy Face of our Lord re-
ceived, and that these wretches, in striv-
ing to annul the infinite merits of its
sufferings, cause, as it were, the sweat of
this Most Holy Face."

"After this vision," continues the Sis-
ter, "the Blessed Saviour said to me: 'I
seek Veronicas to wipe and honor my Di-
vine Face, which has few adorers.' And
he made me understand anew that all
who would devote themselves to this
Work of the Reparation would thereby
perform the office of the pious Veroni-
ca. After which he addressed me these
words : ' I give you my Face as a recom-
pense for the services you have rendered
me. They are slight, it is true ; but your
heart has conceived great desires. I
therefore present you this gift in virtue

56 Sister Saint- Pierre.

of the Holy Ghost, in the presence of
my Father, the angels and saints, through
the hands of my Most Holy Mother and
St. "Veronica, who will teach you in what
manner it should be venerated.' He
moreover added: 'By my Holy Face
you will perform wonders.' " The Sister
understood that this precious gift was
not for herself alone ; that it was to be-
come in the Work of Reparation a dis-
tinctive sign and powerful means of ac-
tion. But this grace was for her, after
that of the Sacraments, the greatest she
could receive. " Now," added the Lord,
"if any do not recognize in this my
work, it is because they close their eyes."
"Two days after, having taken for the
subject of my prayer," the Sister says,
"the Betrayal of Judas, I sorrowfully
considered the outrage the Face of our
Lord had received in the kiss of his per-
fidious disciple, and it seemed to me that
the Divine Master invited me in a spirit
of reparation to kiss most fervently the

Sister Saint- Pierre. 57

image of his Holy Face.* After obeying
the inspiration I felt that this amiable Sa-
viour willed to instruct me on the excel-
lence of the gift he had presented me
in his Adorable Face, and he had the
goodness to accommodate himself to the
feebleness of my mind by the follow-
ing simple comparison : ' As in earth-
ly kingdoms/ said he, 'one can obtain
what he wills with coin stamped .with
the king's effigy, so with the precious
coin of my Sacred Humility, whose effigy
is my Adorable Face, one can obtain in
the kingdom of heaven all that he de-
sires.' And he promised me, besides, that
all who, by words, prayers, or writings,
would defend his cause in this Work of
Reparation, he would defend before his
Father, and would give them his king-
dom.'3

Succeeding these communications on
the Holy Face, Sister Saint-Pierre had
the next day an interior light on the

* See Brief of Leo XIH.

58 Sister Saint-Pierre,

same subject, which she expressed in the
following prayer :

" Remember, O my sonl ! the instruc-
tions which thy Heavenly Spouse has
this day given thee concerning his Ador-
able Face. Remember that the Divine
Head represents the Eternal Father, who
is unbegotten; that the mouth of this
Holy Face represents the Divine Word,
begotten of the Father; the two eyes,
the reciprocal love of the Father and the
Son, for these divine eyes have but one
light, one identical knowledge, and pro-
duce the one same love which represents
the Holy Ghost. Contemplate in his
flowing hair the infinite perfections of
the Most Blessed Trinity. Behold in
this majestic Head, precious portion «of
the Sacred Humanity of the Saviour, the
image of the Unity of God."

A series of other communications soon
came to unfold more clearly these con-
soling truths. On the 3d of November,
in order to show more plainly the pro*

Sister Saint-Pierre. 59

priety of the choice he had made of his
Holy Face as the principal object of the
Adoration, our Lord declares to Marie
de Saint-Pierre that he gives it to her
"to be wiped with her homages and per-
fumed with her praises," and he adds :
" According to the care you will take to
make reparation to my Face, disfigured
by blasphemy, will 1 take of your soul,
disfigured by sin. I will reimprint my
likeness irpon it, and make it as beautiful
as when it came forth from the baptis-
mal font. There are men skilled in re-
storing health to the body, but I alone
am the 'healer of souls,' I alone can re-
new in them the image of God, effaced
by sin." Hearing these words, the pious
Sister in transports exclaimed : "I salute
thee, I adore thee, and I love thee, O
Adorable Face of Jesus, my Beloved,
noble seal of the Divinity. With all the
powers of my soul I apply myself to
thee, and I most humbly pray thee to
imprint in all of us thy image, disfigured

60 Sister Saint-Pierre.

by sin." " What a mystery of love ! " con-
tinued our Carmelite. " Man is invited
to repair the outrages made to his God,
and in a loving return he promises to
restore his image in our souls ! Let us,
therefore, wipe the august Face of the
Saviour, soiled with the spittle of blas-
phemers, and he will wipe our soul,
soiled with the spittle of sin,"

CHAPTEE V.

HER PRAYERS FOR FRANCE.

HE year 1846 had dawned upon
the world, and yet there was no
outward indication that the ar-
dent wishes of Sister Saint-Pierre would
be realized. On the 23d of January she
was favored with a communication which
she hastened in tears to make known to
the Mother-Prioress. These are the fear-
ful words the Divine Saviour used : " The
face of France has become hideous in my
Father's eyes, and she provokes his jus-
tice. To obtain mercy for her, offer
him the Face of his Son, in whom he
takes complacency. Unless this be done
she will feel the weight of his wrath in

62 Sister Saint-Pierre.

well-merited chastisements. The Holy
Face of her Saviour is her salvation.
Behold the proof of my goodness to
France, who only repays me with ingra-
titude." Henceforth, docile and fright-
ened, the pious Sister began to say this
prayer, which she continually repeated:

u Eternal Father, we offer thee the
Adorable Face of thy well-beloved Son
for the honor and glory of thy Holy
iName and for the salvation of France."

It was now with great anguish that
she received new lights. Those warn-
ings of God and the apparent impossi- .
bility of seeing his commands obeyed
filled her with sorrow and desolation.
" My poor heart," she says, " is pierced
by a sword of grief. Again has our
Blessed Lord centred all the faculties of
my soul upon his precious thorn-crowned
Head and his Adorable Face, which is
made a butt for the outrages of the ene-
mies of God and. his Church. Again
have I heard his sorrowful plaints, 'that

Sister Saint-Pierre. 63

he seeks souls to atone for the outrages
inflicted upon him, and to heal his Di-
vine Wounds by applying to them the
wine of compassion and the oil of cha-
rity.' *

Four days later the Divine Master
made known to his servant that two per-
sons had rendered him signal service dur-
ing his Passion : the first, as already men-
tioned, was the pious Veronica, who
glorified his humanity by wiping His
Adorable Face on the painful road to
Calvary ; the second was the " good
thief," who from his cross, as from a pul-
pit, openly defended the Saviour's cause
and confessed his divinity, blasphemed by
the other thief and the hardened Jews.
He presented both as models in the
Work of Reparation — Veronica to those
of her own sex who are called to defend
his cause, not by preaching, but by wip-
ing his Holy, August Face with the veil
of prayer, praise, and adoration ; and the
" good thief '* as the special model of men

64 Sister Saint-Pierre,

and the ministers of his Church, who are
called upon to publicly defend the honor
of God and to proclaim his glory before
those by whom it is outraged. To St.
Yeronica our Lord gave the impression
of his divine features ; to the ' ' good
thief" an immediate entrance into his
celestial kingdom. And he promised
the Sister to be no less munificent to
those who by their "prayers, words, ado-
rations, or writings defended his cause;
he will defend their cause before his
Father in heaven and give them his king-
dom." And he enjoined her to make
these promises known to all, adding : " If
you keep these things hidden, without
speaking of them, you will commit an
injustice." In another communication the
Lord urged her to offer herself as a vic-
tim for the sins of France. " Pray for
her," said he ; " immolate yourself for her.
I give you anew my Face: offer it to
my Father to appease his justice. Ah !
if you but knew its power, its virtue.

Sister Saint-Pierre. 65

And wherefore ? Because I have taken
upon my Head all the sins of mankind,
in order that my members may be spared.
Therefore offer my Face to my Father,
for this is the means of appeasing him."
And he added: "I desire the Work of
the Reparation ; rest assured it will be
firmly established, but the fruit you bear
is not yet matured."

In the mission assigned to the daughter
of Carmel we see the salvation of France
closely linked with the "Work of Repara-
tion ; hence for both our Lord offers the
same exterior signs, the same efficacious
means — namely, the cultus of his Ado-
rable Face. Such is the subject of the
following communication : " My daugh-
ter, I take yon for my steward and anew
place my Holy Face in your hands, that
you may unceasingly offer it to my Fa-
ther for the salvation of France. Use
to advantage the divine talent which in
my Holy Face I entrust to you. By so
doing you will obtain the conversion of

66 Sister Saint-Pierre.

many sinners. Nothing that you ask in
virtue of this offering will be refused
you. Ah! if you but knew how pleas-
ing to my Father is the sight of my
Face." Again, displaying to her the
boundless treasures of the infinite merits
of his life and Passion, the loving Sa-
viour added : " My daughter, I give you
my Face and my Heart, I give you my
Blood, I give you my "Wounds; draw
from them and pour out upon others;
buy freely, for my Blood is the price of
souls. Oh ! what sorrow for my Heart to
behold remedies which have cost me so
dearly despised by men. Ask of my Fa-
ther as many souls as I have shed drops
of blood in my Passion."

The prayers of Reparation seemed to
the Sister a wall which protected France
against the shafts of divine justice; a
hundred times daily she offered to God
the Adorable Face of Jesus.

Another communication, made on the
27th of January, 1847, binds together

Bister Saint-Pierre. 67

two excellent devotions which in the
"Work of Reparation .occupy an essential
place. " Our amiable Saviour," says the
pious Carmelite, "has made me hear his
sighs upon his unappreciated love in the
Most Blessed Sacrament of the Altar
from the lack of faith among Christians,
and he has happily bound my heart and
mind at his feet, in order that I may
bear him company in this abandonment
by adoring his Most Holy Face hidden
under the Eucharistic veil. Yes, it is
by this august Sacrament that Jesus,
our Saviour, wishes to communicate to
souls the virtue of his Most Holy Face,
which is there more dazzling than the
sun. And he has promised me anew to
imprint on the souls of those that honor
it his Divine Likeness."

Then suddenly our Lord gave to her
mind a clear perception of the connec-
tion existing between his Most Holy
Name and His Adorable Face. "He
made me understand," says she, "by a

68 Sister Saint-Pierre.

comparison as simple as it is appropriate,
how the impious, by their blasphemies,
attack his Adorable Face, while the
faithful glorify it by the homage and
praise they render to his Name and his
Sacred Person.

" Behold a man, distinguished for his
name and merits, in the presence of his
enemies ; they do not lift a hand against
him, but they heap insults upon him,
treat him with contempt, and call him
by injurious epithets instead of the titles
that justly belong to him. Observe now
the face of this injured man ; does it
not seem that all the opprobrious words
uttered against him by his enemies are
reflected there and make him suffer a
veritable torment? See how his face
burns with shame and confusion. Is not
the ignominy inflicted upon it harder to
bear than physical tortures in other parts
of his body? This is a faint picture of
the Face of our Lord outraged by the
blasphemies of the impious !

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" Let us represent to ourselves this
same man in the presence of his friends,
who, hearing of the insults he has received,
hasten to console him by treating him
according to his dignity, paying homage
to the greatness of his name, and ad-
dressing him by all the titles due his
exalted rank ; does not the face of that
man express the sweetness of these
praises? Happiness rests upon his brow
and beams on his radiant countenance,
joy sparkles in his eyes, and a smile is
on his lips. In a word, his faithful
friends have cured the burning anguish
of that Face outraged by his enemies ;
glory has taken the place of opprobrium.
This is what the friends of Jesus do
by the Work of Reparation; the glory
they render to his Name rests on his
august brow and rejoices his Most
Holy Face in a special manner in the
Blessed Sacrament of the Altar."

In our days the crimes which most
outrage our Lord in his Sacrament^

70 Sister Saint-Pierre.

spring from secret societies. They are
designated to the Sister under the gene-
ral name of Communists, as being the
greatest enemies of the Church and
France. " He has commanded me," she
says, "to make war against these wicked
men, who for the most part were born
in that Church of which they are now
the declared enemies. He has given me
to combat them the arms of his Pas-
sion, his Cross, and the other instru-
ments of his tortures. i My daughter,'
said he, 'they have dragged me from my
Tabernacles, they have profaned my Sanc-
tuaries and laid hands on the anoint-
ed of the Lord. Have they not com-
mitted the crime of Judas ? Have they
not sold me for money? Let not this
knowledge be without fruit. I make it
known to you in order to animate you
for the combat. March towards them
with the simplicity of a child and the
courage of a valiant soldier.' " And the
virgin of the cloister repeated with thq

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prophet : " Let God arise and his ene-
mies be dispersed, and let all that hate
him flee from before his Face."

This was in 1847. The governments
of the period did not appear to be un-
easy about the intriguing of these ene-
mies of social order who have since over-
turned^ thrones and brought confusion to
Europe. " Alas ! " said the pious Carmel- '
ite, unable to restrain her tears, " days
of wrath are approaching, and yet this
Work of the Reparation, which I have
borne for nearly four years under sor-
rows that God, alone can know, has not
appeared. O my God ! arise ; it is thy
cause as well as ours ; we pray thee to
defend France with the protection of thy
Holy Face, and grant her mercy for the
glory of thy Adorable Name. Yes, en-
lightened from on high, I firmly believe
that on this Work of Reparation depends
the future of France. I see it always
linked to France as the means of salva-
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chosen for her. Wherefore I would give
the last drop of my blood to obtain its
establishment, for then the Lord would
be appeased and innumerable souls would
be saved/'

CHAPTEE VI.

THE ARCHCONFRATERNITT OF TEE RE-
PARATION.

HE 7th of March, 1847, our Lord
said to his faithful servant :
" Rejoice, my daughter ; the
hour approaches when that most beautiful
work under the sun is to appear." As
the Sister was much troubled concerning
the many obstacles to be overcome, the
Divine Saviour said to her : " These ob-
stacles are only the mist of a morning
ushering in a fine day."

A question rises here regarding the
Work of Reparation through the Holy
Face. Without doubt the Redemption
wrought upon the Cross is, and always
will be, the masterpiece of Divine Wis-
dom and Divine Love; but the Repara-

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tion asked by the Saviour of Marie de
Saint-Pierre is so intimately, connected
with the Eedemption of man, so identi-
fied with the expiation of Calvary, that
we may truly consider it an application of
the same; and thus, notwithstanding the
feebleness and linworthiness of the in-
struments employed, it is in reality " the
most beautiful of works, the most neces-
sary for the needs of the age in which
we live. '

The day, in fact, was fast approach-
ing when this Work would be definitely
established.

The Confraternity not having been in-
stituted at Tours in the manner the Lord
wished, the Holy Virgin of La Salette,
the 19th of September, came herself in
person to begin it. Sister Saint-Pierre
had solicited the intervention of Mary,
and Mary, our merciful Mother, an-
nounced it. " His grace," says Sister
Saint-Pierre, " coming to no decision, I
appealed to Mary. I clearly saw there

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was no hope but in her intercession ;
daily I recited the chaplet to obtain the
establishment of the Work. I longed to
proclaim it throughout France and make
known to my country the misfortunes
which threatened her. Oh ! how I suf-
fered in being the sole depositary of
so important a thing ! " " Holy Vir-
gin," she again exclaimed, "appear in
the world, make known to some one
that which has been communicated to
me concerning France." When the pious
Sister heard that the august Queen of
Heaven had spoken to the little shep-
herds of the Alps, JVlaximin and Melanie,
in transports she cried : " O Yirgin Mo-
ther of my God ! I thank thee for having
given me these two little shepherds as
sounding trumpets to echo from the
mountain to the ears of France all that
has been revealed to me in solitude."
And again : " The voice of my dear lit-
tle associates has been heard throughout
the world. Let us pray, let us weep for

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our sins. The time is not far distant
when France will be shaken to her foun-
dations. But she will not be engulfed,
if before the eyes of the Lord appears the
Work of Reparation. She, who was to
be utterly destroyed, will be only lightly
ehastised." In fact, in less than a year
after — and perhaps to this we owe our
continued existence — the Work was ear-
nestly begun. Mgr. Parisis, Bishop of
Langres, having heard of the projected
"Work, took a lively interest in forward-
ing it as much as possible. His zeal for
the Holy Name of God made him labor
with much ardor for the establishment
of the Association ; his efforts were crown-
ed with success. He wrote to Mgr. Mor-
lot, Archbishop of Tours, who, still judg-
ing that it was not opportune to pro-
nounce judgment, left the initiative of
the Work to the Bishop of Langres, be-
ing all the more willing to do this as
Langres was his (Mgr. Morlot's) birth-
place. A Confraternity of Reparation

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was then canonically established at St.
Dizier in the church of St. Martin of
Lanoue. Reverend M. l'Abbe Marche, its
pastor, was sent to Rome to solicit, in
behalf of the Association, the title of
Arch confraternity, together with some
indulgences. Pius IX. received the peti-
tions with the most ardent enthusiasm,
and it was on this occasion he made use
of the words that have been so often
quoted : " Reparation is a work destined
to save society." He granted the re-
quested indulgences, and by a brief
dated July 30, 1847, raised the Asso-
ciation of Reparation established at St.
Dizier to the dignity of an Archcon-
fraternity, with the right of aggregating
throughout the Catholic world similar as-
sociations ; and His Holiness requested
that his name should be the first sub-
scribed on the register of membership —
a signal privilege, which was to be the
seed of wonderful benedictions.

The Confraternity of the Reparation

78 Sister Saint-Pierre.

answered so well the need of our times,
and was so evidently the work of God,
that from its very commencement it
spread like a fire among dry reeds.

Nevertheless it had for its centre only
the second parish of a small town, in
a. diocese far from the place where the
communications had been made. Besides,
the episcopal ordinance of Langres had
made no mention of the cultus of the
Holy Face indicated as the sensible ob-
ject of the Reparation. Consequently,
though the canonical erection of the
Archconfraternity of the Reparation
filled the pious Sister with joy, she yet
said, "My heart is not entirely satisfied;
for in this work the Church of Tours,
the heritage of the great St. Martin, still
remains inactive. When will it bring
forth the fruit which has been conceived
in its midst?'5

She was not to see the fulfilment of
this legitimate desire ; her earthly pilgri-
mage was drawing to a close. Still the

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future welfare of her country was ever
before her, and she ceased not most ear-
nestly to pray for its salvation.

On the 2d of December our Lord
appeared to her covered with wounds.
uHe made me," she says, "hear these
sorrowful words : ' The Jews crucified me
on Friday ; hut the Christians crucify
me on Sunday. Ask them in my name,
at least for this diocese of Tours, the
establishment of the Work of Reparation,
in order that my friends may embalm my
Wounds by pious expiations and obtain
mercy for the guilty. My daughter, the
storm is already threatening, but I shall
keep my promise if my wishes be ac-
complished. Speak with humility and at
the same time with holy liberty.' "

The storm of which the Saviour spoke
was indeed at hand. Two months later
it was to burst forth in all its fury.
This the Divine Master clearly announc-
ed to his servant in a communication of
the 13th of February.

80 Sister Saint-Pierre.

"Our Lord," she says, "has made
known to me in these words the terrible
woes impending over us : ' The Church is
threatened with a fearful tempest Pray,
pray ! ' It is impossible," she adds, " to
describe the touching and impressive ac-
cents with which this charitable Saviour
said to me, ' Pray, pray ! ' "

This prediction was, indeed, verified in
1848, in the epoch usually called Days
of February ', by an unexpected Eevolu-
tion which hurled Louis Philippe from
his throne, made France a Republic, and
shook all Europe, particularly Pome,
which Pius IX. was obliged to leave and
seek refuge in Gaeta.

The soul of the Sister was in anguish.
" Ah ! " she cried, " the Lord has long
asked of France a Work which would
be for her a rainbow of mercy. Hap-
pily, the work has been inaugurated, and
its influence is being felt; but it is yet
too feeble to arrest the wrath of the
Omnipotent. Ah ! if it were but extend-

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ed to all the dioceses I should be with-
out uneasiness, for God is faithful to his
promises." She adds : " Oh ! how I wish
to make known to all the bishops this
consoling truth, and entreat them in this
great crisis to aid in the "Work of Repa-
ration. I have always said it, and I again
repeat it : It is this Work which is to
disarm the justice of God and save
France and the world! Happy if they
know how to profit by this means of sal-
vation ! "

" Nothing," she further says, " is more
efficacious to disarm the irritated justice
of God than to offer him this Most Holy
Face, which has taken upon its Head the
thorns of our sins, and has exposed itself
to the strokes of that same justice. It
has cancelled our debts, it is our secu-
rity ; whence our amiable Saviour has
commanded me, notwithstanding my un-
worthiness, to keep myself constantly be-
fore the throne of his Father, offering
him this Divine Face, the object of his

82 Sister Saint-Pierre.

complacency. And this tender Saviour has
made me the consoling promise : ' Every
time you offer my Face to my Father I
will open my Mouth to demand mercy.'
The good Jesus has also promised to
have pity on France. Let us, then, have
great confidence ; his all-powerful Name
will be our buckler, and his Adorable
Face our rampart. And he made me
also understand that he wished this devo-
tion to his Adorable Face rapidly and
widely extended. O good Jesus ! hide us
in the secret of thy Holy Face, that it may
be for us an impregnable tower, a fortress
against the attacks of our enemies." One
day after Holy Communion our Lord ap-
peared in the interior of her soul as he
is represented in the Ecce Homo. "He
at first attracted my attention," she says,
"'upon the contemplation of his Holy
Face. Soon he directed it to the reed he
held in his Hand, and presented it to me
to combat the enemies of the Church,
promising me they would feel my blows.

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He made me understand that this feeble
reed was the figure of my soul. Yes, I
am only a feeble reed, but in the Hand
of Jesus Christ, my Spouse, becoming
most powerful against his adversaries, I
shall say with faith and confidence : i O
malice of the demon, vanish before the
reed of Jesus Christ ! '

"Eternal Father, I offer thee the Most
Holy Face of Jesus. It is a mysterious
coin of infinite value which alone can can-
cel our debts. Eternal Father, I offer thee
the Most Holy Face of Jesus to appease
thy wrath. Remember it has borne the
thorns of our sins, and the blows of thy
justice, of which it still bears the marks.
Behold those Divine Wounds of whose
voice I wish to be the echo; they inces-
santly cry, ' Mercy, mercy, mercy for sin-
ners ! ' "

With these words she bowed her face
to the earth, saying, " Lord, I merit only
hell ! " The Good Master answered : " I
have applied to your soul the virtue of

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my Face, to restore therein the image of
God. Those who will contemplate the
wounds of my Face on earth shall one
day contemplate it radiant with glory in
heaven."

" At that moment," says the Sister, " I
was on Thabor and would fain have re-
peated with the Apostle St. Peter : ' Lord,
it is good to be here. Let us make three
tabernacles for the three powers of my
soul, that it may always enjoy this sweet
repose which infinitely surpasses all the
pleasures of earth.' But our Lord made
me understand that his true spouses should
prefer the heat of combat to the repose
of contemplation, and should not shrink
from throwing themselves into the con-
flict to defend his glory."

It was after these divine consolations
that Marie de Saint-Pierre composed as
by inspiration those beautiful invocations
of the " Adorable Face of our Lord " im-
properly called the "Litany." They are
jets of light, cries of love, a kind of spir-

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itual poem to the glorification of the
Holy Face, which she is pleased to con-
sider under its different aspects — joyous,
sorrowful, glorious, merciful, and terrible.
At the end of her writings, in a hymn of
thanksgiving, she particularly thanks our
Lord "for having made her the gift of
his Divine Face, so suitable to appease the
justice of the celestial Father, and from
which flows a precious Blood which as-
sures us of eternal life." She adds : " O
blessed, holy angels ! thank Jesus and Mary
for me, who have heaped favors upon
me, and draw me to heaven, in order
that I may, notwithstanding my unworthi-
ness, sing eternally with you a hymn of
gratitude for all the graces I have receiv-
ed from my God, and, above all, for the
Work of Reparation which his mercy has
established in France."

CHAPTEE YII.

HER YIBTUES.

|T is time to speak a few words of
the virtues of our dear revered
Sister. We shall only mention
those which were the most characteristic.
Above all, she possessed charity in an
eminent degree; the glory of God and
the conversion and salvation of sinners
wrere the sole objects of her thoughts
and the motive of all her actions. The
loss of souls made so vivid an impression
upon her that she could not repress her
sorrow. More than once she was heard
weeping and sobbing. Her tender and
solid piety also inspired her with a great
zeal to relieve the souls in purgatory, es-
pecially those that were the most forlorn.

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Her heart expanded with love for our
Lord; she honored his Sacred Humanity
in all its mysteries, but those of his
Birth and Hidden Life had for her in-
expressible charms. Her devotion to the
Divine Infancy and to the Holy Family
was manifest on all occasions. Being
Portress, it was a source of joy to her
to open the door to carpenters, whose
occupation reminded her of the labors
of the childhood of Jesus and St. Jo-
seph, One day a wagon drawn by an
ass entered the courtyard of the mon-
astery. Approaching the animal, the
good Sister began to tenderly stroke it
in remembrance of the service rendered
Jesus and Mary by the humble beast
in their flight into Egypt. At Christ-
mas-time she testified her joy and piety
in various ways; she contemplated with
a radiant countenance the statue of the
Infant Jesus in the Crib, took it in her
arms, lighted tapers before it, and sang
for the Divine J3abe her sweetest songs of

88 Sister Saint-Pierre.

praise ; sometimes, even, like David be-
fore the Ark, she began to dance, invit-
ing her companions in the Novitiate to
do the same. The Mother-Prioress ex-
pressed astonishment and warned her
against dissipation. " Oh ! no, Reverend
Mother," she answered. "I do it to
honor the Infant Jesus, and to make
amends for all the guilty dances that
offend him."

Her affections were also directed to
Jesus in the Eucharist. In the choir,
before the Blessed Sacrament, the ex-
pression of her face, her manner, her
looks, made it seem that, piercing the
Eucharistic veil, she really saw Jesus
on the altar. Quitting the sanctuary,
she left there her heart ; and in whatever
part of the house she happened to be,
she turned towards it, transported with
joy when she could catch a glimpse of
the altar. She had attained to a rare de-
gree of humility. She sincerely believed
herself the least in the community, the

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most miserable, an unworthy sinner, and
reproached herself for the slightest im-
perfections as if they were grave faults.
One day a Sister found her weeping and
asked the cause. Sister Saint-Pierre re-
minded her of a fault she had committed
the day previous in her presence. The
Sister assured her she had not noticed it,
it was so very trifling. " Nevertheless,"
she answered, " God may have been of-
fended, and that is the cause of my tears."
Self-complacency found no place in her
mind. She ingenuously avowed it. Once;
when she was still a novice, the Mother-
Prioress during recreation asked her to
sing for a newly- arrived postulant the
canticle, "Blessed be God, I am his
spouse." She did so with so sweet a
voice and so lively an accent of piety
that her young companion was delight-
ed. When she had finished the Mother-
Prioress said aloud : " Eh, well, my Sis-
ter Saint-Pierre, how many thoughts of
vanity had you whilst singing ? " Low-

90 Sister Saint-Pierre.

ering her eyes, she modestly answered :
" If I have had any I have banished
them."

Her obedience was prompt, implicit,
and perfect. She complied in the sim-
plicity of a child with all that was requir-
ed, stimulated thereto by the example of
the Child Jesus at Nazareth. The words
of the Gospel, " He was submissive to
them" were ever on her lips. She ren-
dered a blind obedience not only to her
superiors, but to the Sisters upon whom
she was dependent, and, in fact, to all,
regarding them as her mistresses and
making it a duty to acquiesce in their
wishes, just like a child who has no
will but that of its guardians. Thus
she was able in her last sickness to say
in all truth and candor : " It is my con-
solation in death that I have always
been obedient."

Her recollection was so profound that
merely to see her was sufficient to raise
one's thoughts to God. She seemed un-

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conscious of what was going on around
her, so much so that even after her Pro-
fession she was ignorant of the various
places assigned the different nuns in the
choir and refectory. One of the nuns,
whose cell was so situated that she had
an opportunity of seeing her when she
thought herself unseen by human eye,
assures us that during the time she oc-
cupied this cell, which was for several
years, she never saw her raise her eyes
from her work but to cast them on the
little statue of the Infant Jesus which
she always kept near her.

After any supernatural communications
she would appear pale, trembling, and
bathed in tears ; especially was this the
case when they revealed the woes im-
pending over France. Then her tears
flowed, yet calmly and silently. She
would then appear so absorbed in recol-
lection that it was difficult to draw her
therefrom ; and this would last for hours,
though without hindrance to the per-

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formance of her duties. Her union with
God was intimate and continual; she
never lost sight of him, and, according
to her exj^ression, her soul, closely united
to our Lord, was " happily bound at his
feet." But this life, apparently so hea-
venly and sweet, was not exempt from
interior trials and sufferings. The Mo-
ther-Prioress was convinced that these
were so great that, whilst serving to
purify her soul, they shortened her days
in this world.

She also possessed in an eminent de-
gree that sweet liberty of spirit which
distinguishes a true Carmelite. She knew
perfectly well how to blend with the
practice of the most exalted virtues the
charms of charity, and even gayety. One
day a friend brought to the convent as a
present a piece of cake. Sister Saint-
Pierre, then Portress, was very much
fatigued. On receiving the cake she
immediately carried it to the Mother-
Prioress, and, presenting it to her, said

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with her usual simplicity : " "What a pro-
vidence— the ass of the Infant Jesus is
hungry ! " , The good Mother smiled, and
gave a piece of the cake to her little
Portress, who, giving thanks to God,
gaily partook of it.

During recreations she spoke but little,
always preferring to listen ; nevertheless
she was cheerful and amiable, expressing
herself to the point and taking part in
all that was said, though it was often
necessary for her to make extremely vio-
lent efforts to break off her interior con-
verse with God. Her companions loved
to be near her, because they always found
it to their spiritual benefit. Her reserve
was especially noticeable in matters per-
taining to charity ; she excused every one,
palliated their defects, and this with tact
and cordiality.

During her last illness, having passed
a night of extreme suffering, she said to
a nun who was from the same part of
the country as herself: "You remember

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that in Brittany our little excursions end-
ed with a feast, each person furnishing his
or her share, one paying for the cream,
another for the sugar. The good Jesus
last night assigned to me the furnishing
of the sugar by making me suffer very
much."

When, in 1848, she fell sick, it was at
the time of the government elections,
and the Carmelites had had more than
one alarm. One day the Mother-Prioress
said half -jestingly : " Since you cannot
pray any more, you will be the spiritual
drum, and whenever you hear the Na-
tional Gruard beat the call to arms, do
you call the holy angels to our assist-
ance " She accepted her new mission,
and the next day presented the Reverend
Mother with a little drum, upon which
was inscribed the Holy Name of God
and that of each of the choirs of holy
angels. Unable to make vocal pray-
ers, she would take the little drum on
her bed, and, striking it with her fin-

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gers, thus call the heavenly militia to
their aid. The world may laugh at this
trait of childish piety, but those not of
the world will see in it the admirable
simplicity of a soul transformed by the
science of the Crib and the virtue of
obedience. This drum, after the death
of the Sister, was sent to a friend of Car-
mel as a plaything to amuse his little
boy. But in his family it was richly en-
cased under a glass globe and is preserv-
ed as a precious relic.

Until the last our dear Sister cherish-
ed a special devotion to the Divine In-
fant Jesus and the cares which at that
period of his life he received from his
august Mother. She was richly reward-
ed by the ineffable communications gra-
ciously vouchsafed to her concerning the
Divine Maternity, whence she drew
greater and still greater confidence for
the triumph of the Church and the sal-
vation of France.

CHAPTEE VIII.

HER LAST SICKJVESS-HER DEATH.

HE mission of the Sister was ac-
complished. According to the
designs of God there remained
for her but to perfect the sacrifice which
she had so often made of herself. Al-
ready her health was beginning to fail.
At the close of the Lent of 1848 she
entered upon those sufferings which, unit-
ing her more and more to Jesus Cruci-
fied, were to crown her pure, holy life
by an admirable death.

On Good Friday, at three o'clock,
when prostrate on the ground ador-
ing Jesus Christ dying on the Cross,
it was revealed to her that the divine
wrath was about to descend upon men.

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Immediately, renewing her act of per-
fect abandonment, she offered herself to
God as a victim to appease his irritated
justice. It seemed as if the Lord had
awaited this last and generous offering
before immolating his courageous victim,
for immediately was developed that long
and painful sickness which caused her
final dissolution. She was consumed by
a burning fever; her throat became ul-
cerated ; her tongue and mouth were as
if incessantly pierced by cruel thorns — a
noticeable fact, since our Lord had told
her she must pray and suffer for blas-
phemers. Night after night she was
unable to take the slightest repose ; each
change of position on her bed became
a new martyrdom; ulcers were formed,
which added to her sufferings. This
frightful state for human nature she bore
without the least injury to her interior
disposition; her patience never waned,
her union with God was continual, her
spirit of sacrifice entire and without re-

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serve, her docility, innocence, and sim-
plicity like that of a child.

Early in June she received the Holy
Viaticum and Extreme Unction with a
fervor and rapture that made it seem
that she already had a foretaste of the
eternal joys in store for her. On Friday,
the 16th of June, they thought her dy-
ing, and began the Prayers for the Ago-
nizing. Perfectly conscious, she united
with the pious nuns by making frequent
aspirations. Suddenly she entered into a
supernatural state, the effects of which
were very apparent. When, after the
recommendations of the departing soul,
they pronounced these words, " Maria,
mater gratice, mater misericordice" she
impulsively threw up her arms toward
heaven with the eagerness of a child at
the sight of its mother. She remained a
long time in this position, although a
few moments before so weak and stiff
were her arms that they seemed immov-
able. Afterwards she extended them in

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the form of a cross, in order to expire
as a victim. When the dear nuns at-
tempted to prevent it she said : " Leave
7rie thus / for me it is a dutyP Alter-
nately taking her crucifix and the little
statue of the Infant Jesus which never
quitted her, she covered them with
kisses and pressed them to her heart.
Then, holding the little statue as high
as possible, she pronounced in a low,
solemn tone these words : " Eternal
Father ! once more I offer this Ado-
rable Child, thy Divine Son, in expia-
tion of my sins and those of the human
race, for the needs of the Holy Church,
for France and the Reparation. Amia-
ble Jesus, I abandon this work into thy
hands; for it I have lived, for it I shall
die." Then, placing the statue on her
head, she said : " Divine Child, cover
my criminal head with the merits of thy
Precious Blood ; renew in my soul grace
and innocence ; clothe me in thy purity
and the spirit of thy humility. Oh ! has-

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ten unto me ! When shall I leave
earth? Come, O my Jesus, and delay
not ! Mary, my tender Mother, come for
my soul ! "

She said to the Mother-Prioress : " My
career is finished, as our Lord has made
known to me ; for the Work of Repara-
tion which is to save France is estab-
lished. It was for this God placed me
on earth. Now I have but to suffer;
it is necessary for the accomplishment of
his designs. Ah! how true it is that he
has means of satisfying his justice un-
known to man."

Her agony was long and painful. As
death approached she recollected that
our Lord had promised to restore to her
soul at the last hour the image of God,
and she wished to renew her baptismal
vows ; as a symbol of the grace she
desired to receive, she asked for some
holy water, made the sign of the cross
upon her head, and pronounced these
words : " Child, I baptize thee in the

Sister Saint-Pierre. 101

Name of the Father, and of the Son,
and of the Holy Ghost." Then, joining
her hands, she added : " I renounce Sa-
tan and all his works and pomps; I de-
sire to belong for ever to Jesus Christ."
After this little ceremony her face as-
sumed such an expression of heavenly
beauty that one might readily have im-
agined her a child just from the waters of
Baptism or an angel about to re-ascend
to its celestial home. From that moment
till her last sigh she never ceased pray-
ing. The sweat of death covered her
brow, its chill had already benumbed
her pain-worn frame, and yet the cold,
livid lips continued to murmur : " Jesus,
Mary, Joseph ! Come, Lord Jesus ! Sit
JSfomen Domini lenedictum ! " These
were her last words. Soon her eyes
closed, and, as a last trait of resemblance
to her Divine Master, she uttered a cry,
and sweetly expired. It was on Sat-
urday, a day consecrated to Mary. The
mortal remains of this admirable daugh-

102 Sister Saint-Pierre.

ter of St. Teresa have been, through
the care of M. Dupont, deposited with-
in the enclosure of the Carmel of Tours,
in the Chapter-Hall where they now re-
pose, which corresponds to that part of
the chapel which is on the right of the
entrance. A mural stone near the holy-
water font bears this simple inscription:

Here rests

Sister Marie de Saint-Pierre of the Holy

Family,

A Professed Religious of this Monastery,

Who died July 8th, 1848,

Aged 31 years and 9 months,

Having been a Religious 9 years and 8 months.

Lord, tlwu wilt conceal her in the secret of thy Face.

CHAPTER IX.

THE CONFRATERNITY OF THE HOLT FACE.

FTER the death of Sister Saint-
Pierre two works, closely al-
r'w^' lied in spirit to the Reparation
and the Adoration of the Holy Sacra-
ment, came from her virginal tomb like
two miraculous flowers — the Congrega-
tion devoted to Perpetual Adoration,
founded by Mile. Dubouche, in religion
Mother Mary Teresa ; and the Nocturnal
Adoration by men, inaugurated by the
celebrated Jew pianist, Hermann, later
Father Marie- Augustine, of the Order of
Discalced Carmelites. But it was M.
Dupont who, in the designs of God,
had the special mission to carry out and
develop the work shown to the Carmel-
ite of Tours for the salvation of France:

104 Sister Saint-Pierre.

the Work of Reparation for blasphemy
and the profanation of Sunday by the
culUis of the Holy Face.

Towards the close of the Lenten sea-
son of 1851 he exposed in his private
oratory an engraving of the Sorrowful
Face of our Lord, an authentic facsimile
of the Veil of Yeronica preserved in the
Vatican Basilica. Miracles ere long be-
came manifest. The man of God re-
joiced, because he beheld in them a proof
of the truth of the revelations made to
Sister Marie de Saint-Pierre. To the
end he hoped the life and writings of
the venerable Sister would be published.
Understanding their worth, he knew how
much good they would effect. His hope
was realized. In 1876, before his earth-
ly career ended, he learned that the
Archbishop of Tours, Mgr. Colet, had
issued orders that insured their being
presented to the world. With a radiant
face he blessed God, and, with his gaze
turned towards the Carmelite convent,

Sister Saint-Pierre. 105

peaceably expired on the 18th of March.
On his death his oratory, where for
twenty-five years the Holy Face had
been honored, was at once transformed
into a public chapel. Mgr. Colet offi-
ciated on the occasion of its dedica-
tion. At the same time he established
in this sanctuary the Confraternity of
the Reparation for Blasphemy and for
the Profanation of Sunday, affiliating it
to that of St. Dizier already erected.
Using his power as Ordinary, he gave to
this Confraternity of Tours a distinct
character, and made of it, properly
speaking, a Confraternity of the Holy
Face, which was really the embodiment
of Sister Saint-Pierre's inspirations. Fi-
nally, to minister to the new chapel
and attend to the spiritual wants of the
pilgrims who flocked from all parts
thither, the worthy successor of St. Mar-
tin instituted, under the title of " Priests
of the Holy Face," a society of regular
clergy living in community in the house

106 Sister Saint-Pierre.

formerly occupied by M. Dupont, and
who, following in his footsteps and un-
der liis auspices, would devote them-
selves to all the Works of Reparation.

Since then the Oratory of the Holy
Face has become a centre of prayers
and expiations to which the gaze and
hearts of numbers turn, not only from
all parts of France, but, in truth, from
all Christendom.

Nor was it long before other Confra-
ternities of the Holy Face, similar to the
one founded at Tours by Mgr. Colet,
were established in many cities. Letters
from all parts of the world are received
soliciting pictures of the Holy Face
like the one so long venerated by M.
Dupont, which was an authentic fac-si-
mile of the Yeil of Yeronica. It would
be impossible to calculate the number
of the holy pictures exposed in various
places (and nearly always with a lamp
burning before them) — in cathedrals, par-
ish churches, public chapels, private

Sister Saint-Pierre. 107

houses and oratories, in hospitals, and in
the enclosure of religious communi-
ties. The Priests of the Holy Face at
Tours have charged themselves with the
pious duty of obtaining these pictures
(the fac-simile of Veronica's Veil) from
Rome and facilitating their distribution,
or rather, we should say, supplying the
demand for them, which is a consequence
of the recognition of the wants of our
age ; so natural is the idea of Reparation,
so befitting and salutary, so powerful in
attracting souls.

This need of Reparation is' urgent; all
Catholic hearts welcome its appearance,
If it be true that France, God's privi-#
leged nation, the Eldest Daughter of the
Church, be the most guilty, because
" much shall be demanded from her to
whom much has been given " ; that blas-
phemy in her midst is more audacious,
and profanations of God's Holy Days
more perverse; should not every gene-
rous Christian soul feel called upon to

108 Sister Saint-Pierre.

labor zealously in establishing and pro-
pagating this Work of Reparation so
urgently demanded, in our Lord's Name,
by the Carmelite of Tours ? What is
more natural and just than to unite our
efforts in repairing what impiety and ha-
tred of God have combined to corrupt
and ruin? The Work revealed to the
admirable virgin whose history has been
related is at the same time, as she herself
says, "a necessity of justice and a pledge
of mercy." Let our efforts be in com-
mon, let us unite ourselves in striving
fervently to appease Divine Justice ; then
it will be our consolation to experience
, only the effects of mercy, which will be
all the more abundant as our Reparation
has been prompt and fervent.

Sister Saint-Pierre. 109

CONDITIONS

For being Beceived into the Confraternity of
the Separation of the Holy Face.

1. To be inscribed on the Register of
the Confraternity where it is canonically
established.

2. To obtain a copy of the Regula-
tions, wherewith will be found the ticket
of admission.

3. To wear at all times the Cross of
the Confraternity.

4. Never to blaspheme, and to do all
one can to prevent blasphemy.

5. When not possible to prevent these
crimes, to make, at least, an interior act
of Reparation for them.

6. To recite daily a Pater, Ave, and
Gloria Patri, " with the Act of Praise,"
in union with the Associates, in the
spirit of Reparation.

Note. — The Most Reverend Archbishops, Right
Reverend Bishops, and Reverend Clergy, also

110 Sister Saint-Pierre.

all pious laymen, are earnestly requested to use
their influence in having exposed for devotion
pictures of the Holy Face, and establishing every-
where the Confraternity of the Reparation for
Blasphemy and Profanation of Sunday.

AH desired information connected with this
Confraternity may be obtained by addressing
the Reverend Director of the Confraternity, Ora-
tory of the Holy Face, *8 Rue Saint-Etienne,
Tours, Indre-et-Loire, France ; or the Reverend
Mother-Prioress, Convent of Discalced Carmelites,
134 Barrack Street, New Orleans, Louisiana, in
whose chapel the Confraternity of the Holy Face
is canonically established.

APPENDIX.

CONTAINING

RULES, PRAYERS AND DEVOTIONS

FOR THE

CONFRATERNITY OF THE HOLY FACE.

Ill

True Image of the Holy Face of our I
tf Lord Jesus Christ, Religiously venerated ft
§ and kept in Rome, in the Basilica of Saint ft
y Peter, in the Vatican.

RULES

IN HONOR OF

THE HOLY PACE.

NEW ORLEANS, LA.

1883.

Ibistorical IFlottce.

Pius IX., in an audience of July 30, 1847, ap-
proved the Confraternity for the Reparation of Blas-
phemy and the Profanation of Sunday. His Holi-
ness greeted the petition with the most ardent enthu-
siasm, requested that his name be the first inscribed
on the register of the Confraternity, and said that
the " Reparation was a work destined to save society.''
Sister Saint-Pierre, on hearing this, exclaimed: " My
mission here below is accomplished ; I can now die ! "
She died a year later, July 8, 1848.

M. Dupont developed and continued her "work."
On Wednesday of Holy Week (1851) he lighted a
lamp (which has never ceased to burn night and day)
before the image of the Holy Face, which is the sen-
sible sign of the Confraternity of the Reparation.
The miraculous graces obtained by the oil of the
lamp were to his eyes as so many proofs that our
Lord accepted the devotion rendered to his Holy
Face as a means of repairing the outrages committed
against the majesty of the Thrice Holy Name of God.
He never ceased to recommend the Reparation. He
said: "Pray that this work may spread. It seems
from what is taking place that our Lord desires, and
without delay, that souls devoted to him should prac-
115

116 Appendix.

tise this salutary exercise. It is a necessity that those
who comprehend what God wills should courageously
walk in the way of Reparation."

The work has spread, and to-day the members in
the different parts of the world are counted by hun-
dreds of thousands. In transforming the oratory of
M. Dupont into a public chapel Mgr. Colet, Arch-
bishop of Tours, erected there June 2, 1876, a Con-
fraternity of Reparation in honor of the Holy Face;
also established a society of priests who would devote
themselves to it and extend its propagation.

"Our Lord," said Sister Saint-Pierre, "demands
this work of Reparation of France which will be a
rainbow of mercy. Ah! " said she, " if it were estab-
lished in all dioceses I would be without uneasiness,
for God is faithful to his promises. ... Oh ! how I
would wish to make known to all bishops this consol-
ing truth, and ask them with earnest supplication
the establishment of this work of the Reparation ! I
have always said it, and I now repeat it, This work
will disarm the anger of God, save France and the
world."

Happy are those who profit by this means of sal-
vation.

(See Life of Sister Saint- Pierre, written by her-
self. This book and all others in English and French
can be had at No. 134 Barrack Street, New Orleans,
La., by addressing the Rev. Mother-Prioress of the
Discalced Carmelites.)

IRuIes

OF THE

CONFRATERNITY OF THE HOLY FACE

In Reparation for Blasphemy and the Pro-
fanation of Sunday.

Established at Tours in the Oratory of the Venerated

3f. Dupont, and in the Chapel of the Dis-

calced Carmelites, New Orleans.

Article 1. The end of the Confraternity
of the Reparation in honor of the Holy
Face is, 1st, to repair the outrages commit-
ted against the Divine Majesty of God by
blasphemies, the profanation of Sunday
and the feasts of the Church ; 2d3 to ob-
tain the conversion and salvation of blas-
phemers and prof aners ; 3d, to preserve
youth and the family from the fatal effects
of these scandals.

To obtain this triple end, so important in

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118 Appendix.

our day, it proposes to render a special cul-
tus of prayer, adoration, and love to the
most Holy Face of our Lord, outraged and
disfigured in his Passion.

Art. 2. It is consecrated to the Adora-
ble Trinity, to the Holy Name of Jesus,
and to his Sorrowful Face.

It is placed under the patronage of St.
Michael, St. Martin, and St. Louis, protec-
tor of France. In the cultus which the
Confraternity renders to the Holy Face it
takes for its models the Immaculate Yirgin
Mary, patroness of the United States ; the
Apostle St. Peter, and the pious Veronica.
Trinity Sunday is the principal feast ; the
second one is that of the Holy Name of
Jesus, the second Sunday after Epiphany ;
and for particular feasts those of the saints
above mentioned or those who are proposed
as models.

Art. 3. Catholics of all ages, of either
sex, and of all conditions are exhorted to
enter this Confraternity. Children who
have not yet made their first Communion
will be received as aspirants and placed
most particularly under the protection of

Appendix. 119

the Amiable Face of the Saviour, who so
tenderly called little children to Him.
Art. 4. Each member from the time of

entrance into the Confraternity devotes
himself for life and death to the worship of
the Merciful and Compassionate Face of
our Lord, and assumes the strict obliga-
tion never to utter blasphemies or impreca-
tions, to hold no conversation, to read no-
thing written, and to take no part in any
act which outrages God and our Lord Jesus
Christ in his saints or through his works ;
never to perform any servile work on Sun-
days and holidays without necessity and
without permission.

Art. 5. Those in authority over others,
such as parents, public men, masters, super-
intendents of works, patrons, workmen
etc., should make a firm resolution as far
as is in their power to promote the obser-
vance of the rules which are laid down in
the preceding Article. They will take par-
ticular care that the aspirants of the Con-
fraternity shall not receive scandal in this,
regard.

Art. 6. When the members hear a bias-

120 Appendix.

phemy or any impious word uttered, when
they see Sundays and holidays profaned
and cannot prevent it, they should offer up
to God some Reparation, saying, for exam-
ple, Sit Nomen Domini benedictum — May
God be praised; may his Holy Name be
blessed ; Our Father, hallowed be thy
Name ; God our Protector, look upon the
Face of thy Christ. They may also add,
Vade retro, Satana.

Art. 7. The Confraternity of the Repa-
ration considers the Adorable and Sorrow-
ful Face of our Lord the exterior sign and
sensible object of the Reparation, as has
been declared by the ordinance, dated June
2, 1876, of his Grace the Archbishop of
Tours, who canonically erected the said
Confraternity in " the oratory of M. Du-
pont. There since 1851 has been honored a
picture of the Face of our Lord, an authen-
tic facsimile of the celebrated Veil of the
Vatican, given to the servant of God by
the Rev. Mother-Prioress of the Carmel-
ites on account of his zeal for the Repar-
ation and in remembrance of the pious re-
lations he had with Sister Saint-Pierre,

Appendix. 121

who died in the odor of sanctity July 8,
1848."

This sign is represented by a Cross, on
one side of which is an image of the Holy
Face, bearing on the top the inscription
of the cross, on either arm " Tours, 1876,"
at the base " Vade retro, Satana," on the
reverse side the monogram of Christ en-
circled by these words, " Reparation, Pius
IX., 1847," and upon the Cross, " Sit No-
men Domini Benedictum."

Art. 8. The members will recite daily a
Pater Xoster, Ave Maria, Gloria Patri, and
the Act of Praise in Reparation for out-
rages committed against God by blas-
phemy and the profanation of Sunday ;
they will at least unite their intention to
the prayers wThich are offered up daily in
the oratories of Reparation, in the morning
after the 7 o'clock Mass and in the after-
noon at 5 o'clock. The Litany of the
Holy Face, composed by Sister Saint-
Pierre and approved by ecclesiastical au-
thorities, is daily recited in the oratories,
after which followT the different recom-
mendations presented by the faithful.

122 Appendix.

Art. 9. On the last Sunday of every
month, in the afternoon, a solemn assembly
takes place in the oratories of the Holy
Face, in reparation for these same out-
rages, but more especially for those com-
mitted within the month. The Act of
Reparation is recited with the invoca-
tions : St. Michael, pray for us ; St. Peter,
pray for us ; St. Martin, pray for us ;
St. Louis, pray for us ; O God our Pro-
tector! look upon the Face of thy Christ
and we shall be saved. These prayers are
preceded by an Instruction and followed
by Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament.

Each member is exhorted to offer up
these prayers every other Sunday of the
month in reparation for the sins of each
week.

On the first Thursday of the month the
evening assemblies, held at 5 o'clock, are
specially devoted to the aspirants of the
Work of Reparation.

(Special prayers are also recited daily, weekly, and
monthly in the chapel of the Discalced Carmelites for
the Reparation of the evils of this country — namely,
intemperance, ganibling, immorality, etc.)

Appendix. 123

Art. 10. The director of a canonically-
established Confraternity admits as mem-
bers those who ask to have their names in-
scribed upon the register. All are exhort-
ed to habitually wear the Cross of the Con-
fraternity and to read over the Rules from
time to time. To share in the merits of the
work the name must be inscribed in the re-
gister. A particular register is kept for the
aspirants of the work who, after their first
Communion, may desire to have their
names inscribed in the grand register.

Art. 11. The Confraternity of Repara-
tion established at Tours and in the Car-
melite chapel, New Orleans, La., are can-
onically affiliated to the Archconfrater-
nity of St. Dizier, diocese of Langres, and
enjoy the same privileges and spiritual
favors.

Art. 12. The members may gain the
following Plenary and Partial Indul-
gences :

Plenary : 1st. On the day of admission
and putting on the Cross. 2d. At the
hour of death. 3d. On the feasts of the
Holy Trinity, the Holy Name of Jesus,

124 Appendix.

St. Michael, St. Martin, and St. Louis,
either on the day itself or on any day
during the octave (Pius IX., July 27,
1847). 4th. On the last Sunday of each
month, if they assist at the monthly
meeting and if the Cross of the Con-
fraternity is worn habitually (applicable to
the souls in Purgatory — Pius IX., Aug.
18, 1847).

(To gain the foregoing Indulgences it is necessary
to go to Confession and Holy Communion, visit an
oratory of the Confraternity (or, if this is impossi-
ble, one's parish church), and there pray for the in-
tentions of the Sovereign Pontiff. — Pius IX., Aug.
18, 1848.)

Partial Indulgences : 1st. 100 days for
each pious work of the Confraternity (Pius
IX., July 27, 1847) ; 2d. 300 days for at-
tending the monthly meeting (applicable to
the souls in Purgatory — Pius IX., Aug. 18,
1848) ; 3d. 100 days for every prayer of-
fered before an image of the Holy Face
(applicable to the souls in Purgatory — Pius
IX., Dec. 11, 1876) ; 4th. 40 days for at-
tending each of the Exercises of Repara-
tion which are held morning and evening

Appendix. 125

in the oratories of the Holy Face (Arch-
bishop of Tours, Nov. 15, 1876).

These Rules of the Confraternity in Re-
paration for Blasphemy and the Profana-
tion of Sunday, canonically erected at Tours
and New Orleans in honor of the Holy
Face, have been seen and approved.

Tours, Nov. 15, 1870.

4« Charles, Archbishop of Tours.

New Orleans, March 12, 1883.
►J* ~N. J. Perche,

Archbishop of New Orleans.

SOUVENIR OF ADMISSION.

M _ 188 ,

has been admitted into the Confraternity
of the Holy Face.

P. JANVIER,

Doyen du Chapetre, Ptre. de la Ste. Face,
Supreme Director of the Work.

Rev

Local Director.
« —*

126 Appendix.

Forms for the Canonical Erection of the Con-
fraternity in a Parish Church or Chapel.

Reverend pastors, chaplains, almoners,
superiors or directors of communities
should —

1. Ask the permission of the ordinary
and his approval of the Rules.

2. Adopt the Rules used by the Confra-
ternity established at Tours, with any spe-
cial modifications the ordinary may see fit
to suggest.

3. Obtain a diploma of affiliation from
the director of the Archconfraternity of
St. Dizier, diocese of Langres (Haute-
Marne), which is never refused, and which
must be submitted to the ordinary before
the inauguration of the Confraternity.

4. To hang in the church or chapel an
image of the Sorrowful Face of our Lord
like the one in the oratory of M. Dupont,
and, if possible, to keep a lamp constantly
burning before it.

5. To obtain a diploma of aggregation
and union of merits and prayers from the
director of the Confraternity at Tours, and
in return assume the duty of propagating

, Appendix. 127

as zealously as possible the spirit of Re-
paration and devotion to the Holy Face.

An Abridgment of Conditions for Membership.

1st. To be inscribed on the register of
the Confraternity.

2d. To obtain the Rules containing the
Certificate of Admission.

3d. Recite daily a Pater, Aye? Gloria,
and the Act of Praise in a spirit of Repa-
ration.

4th. Avoid blasphemies and the profana-
tion of Sunday, and to at least repair those
evils by an interior act of Reparation.

5th. Wear at all times the Cross of the
Confraternity.

6th. To zealously propagate devotion to
the Holy Face.

For further particulars apply to No. 134 Barrack
Street, New Orleans, La., where these Rules of the
Confraternity, the oil from the lamp of the Holy
Face, scapulars, medals, pictures, photographs,
crosses, books, chaplets, gospels of the Holy Name,
and all else connected with the Reparation can be
obtained. The oratories of the Holy Face are open
to pilgrims and visitors daily from 5 a.m. to 6 p.m.,
where recommendations can be sent by mail or left

128 Appendix.

by visitors. It is earnestly requested that persons
who obtain graces should send a written account of
the same, and likewise have an ex-voto put up in
thanksgiving for favors received through the Holy
Face. These ex-votos can be procured on applying
at the oratory. During Novenas lamps and candles
will be kept burning when requested.

Atomises

Of Our Lord Jesus Christ in favor of all who
Honor his Holy Face.

1. They shall receive in themselves, by-
the impression of my Humanity, a bright
irradiation from my Divinity, and shall be
so illuminated by it in their inmost souls
that by their likeness to my Face they shall
shine with a brightness surpassing that of
many others in eternal life. (St. Gertrude,
book iv. cli. vii.)

2. St. Mechtilde having asked our Lord
that those who celebrate the memory of his
sweet Face should never be deprived of his
amiable company, he replied : " Not one of
them shall be separated from me." (St.
Mechtilde, De la Grace Spirituelle, book i.
ch. xiii.)

Appendix. 129

3. " Our Lord," said Sister Saint-Pierre,
" has promised me that he will imprint his
Divine likeness on the souls of those who
honor his most Holy Countenance." (Jan-
uary 21, 1847.)

" This Adorable Face is, as it were, the
seal of the Divinity, which has the virtue
of reproducing the likeness of God in the
souls that are applied to it. " (November
6, 1845.)

4. " By my Holy Face you shall work
miracles." (October 27, 1845. Our Lord
to Sister Marie de Saint-Pierre.)

5. " By my Holy Face you will obtain
the conversion of many sinners. Nothing
that you ask in making this offering will
be refused to you. No one can know how
pleasing the sight of my Face is to my
Father ! " (November 22, 1846.)

6. " As in a kingdom you can procure all
you wish for with a coin marked with the
prince's effigy, so in the kingdom of hea-
ven you will obtain all you desire with the
precious coin of my holy Humanity, which
is my Adorable Countenance." (October
29, 1845.)

130 Appendix.

7. " All those who honor my Holy Face
in a spirit of Reparation will by so doing
perform the office of the pious Veronica."
(October 27, 1S45.)

8. " According to the care yon take in
making Reparation to my Face, disfigured
by blasphemies, so will I take care of yours,
which has been disfigured by sin. I will
reprint my image and render it as beauti-
ful as it was on leaving the baptismal
font." (Our Lord to Sister Marie de Saint-
Pierre, November 3, 1845.)

9. " Our Lord has promised me," said
again Sister Saint-Pierre, "for all those
who defend his cause in this Work of Re-
paration, by words, by prayers, or in writ-
ing, that he will defend them before his
Father ; at their death he will purify their
souls by effacing all the blots of sin and
will restore to them their primitive beau-
ty." (March 12, 1846.)

Prayer of Pope Pius IX.

O my Jesus! cast upon us a look of
mercy. Turn thy Face towards each of us,
as thou didst to Yeronica; not that we

Appendix. 131

may see it with our bodily eyes, for this
we do not deserve, but turn it towards
our hearts, so that, remembering thee, we
may ever draw from this fountain of
strength the vigor necessary to sustain the
combats of life. Amen.

(At an audience given to three Roman parishes,
March 10, 1872. Several French bishops have at-
tached indulgences to this prayer.)

Blessings of the High-Priest Aaron.

JBenedicat tibi Dominus, et custodiat te /
Ostendat Dominus Faciem suam tibi,

et misereatur tui.

The Lord bless thee and keep thee :
The Lord show his Face to thee and

have mercy on thee. The Lord turn his

Countenance to thee and give thee peace.

(Numbers vi. 24-26.)

Aspirations.

Eternal Father, we offer thee the Adora-
ble Face of thy well-beloved Son for the
honor and glory of thy holy name and for
the conversion of France and England.
(Sister Marie de Saint-Pierre.)

132 Appendix.

May I die consumed by an ardent thirst
to see the Face of our Lord and Saviour
Jesus Christ, (Thought of St. Edmund,
which M. Dupont frequently repeated to-
wards the close of his life.)

(With approbation of the Archbishop of Tours,
dated August 26, 1876.)

2)e\>otion

TO THE HOLY FACE OF OUR LORD.

The principal object of the devotion to the Holy
Face is to offer respectful love and homage to the
Adorable Face of Jesus disfigured in the Passion ; to
make reparation for blasphemy and the neglect of
Holy Days, which outrages him afresh ; and, lastly,
to obtain of God the conversion of sinners and pro-
faners of the Holy Day.

This touching devotion, which our Lord himself
seems to have instituted on the day of his death by
imprinting miraculously the traces of his blood-
stained features on*the Veil of Veronica, has always
been known and practised in the Church. The holy
Veil, carefully preserved at Rome in the Vatican Ba-
silica, receives many honors and marks of confidence.
It is exposed several times a year to the veneration of
the faithful. The Sovereign Pontiffs have accorded
numerous indulgences to those who visit this signal
relic with a pious intention. Many saints, men and

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women, have been distinguished by their devotion to
the Divine Face, and have obtained all kinds of
graces and blessings by invoking it. We will men-
tion, among others, Saint Augustine, Saint Bernard,
Saint Gertrude, Saint Mechtilde, and in our own
times, among those deceased in the odor of sanctity,
Sister Marie de Saint- Pierre, Carmelite at Tours ;
Mother Marie-Therese, foundress of the Congregation
de V Adoration Reparatrice; lastly, the venerable M.
Dupont, indefatigable propagator of the devotion to
the Holy Face. Lately this devotion has become
more general. It is an inspiration of the Holy
Ghost passing through the Catholic world. It is
a providential remedy offered to the world to com-
bat the ravages of impiety and a shield against the
scourges of divine justice.

The magnificent and consoling promises of our
Lord, confirmed by a happy experience, show how
pleasing the devotion of the Holy Face is to God and
how useful to Christians. How many special graces,
what unhoped-for conversions, what success in busi-
ness, what supernatural lights have been obtained by
this means ! Above all, what a number of miracu-
lous cures have been wrought by the virtue of the
oil which burns constantly before the venerated pic-
ture at Tours !

It is remarkable that in no other part of his Adora-
ble Body did our Lord suffer such outrages, such
ignominies and insults, as in his amiable Face. No
other circumstance of the Passion was as clearly an-
nounced by the prophets nor as minutely related by
the Evangelists. All these details were not preserved

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in the Scriptures without a particular design of God.
They exhort us to give a place among the mys-
teries of the sorrowful Passion of the Redeemer to
the humiliations and sufferings of his most Holy
Face. Christians who have at heart the glory of
God and the salvation of others, honor with pro-
found veneration the blood-stained and humiliated
Face of your Saviour, and pray to it with abso-
lute confidence. In reparation of the impiety of the
world offer to the Eternal Father this Adorable Face,
with its sadness, its ignominy, its blood, its tears, its
bruises, and its wounds. By so doing you will ap-
•pease the anger of God, obtain the conversion of your
erring brethren, contribute powerfully to the tri-
umph of the Church and to the conversion of France
and England and your own country, and you will
participate in the glorious rewards promised by our
Lord.

BMous IReflections

UPON THE HOLY FACE.

(From the works of Sister Saint-Pierre.)

1. The Holy Face and the Holy Name
of Jesus.

A comparison, as simple as it is just,
will show us how the impious by their
blasphemy outrage the Adorable Face of

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our Lord, and how faithful souls glorify
it by the praises they render to his Name
and Person. Merit belongs to people, and
the honor which they have is due to
their name. When pronounced it carries
with it merit or demerit, as it is deserved.
The Holy Name of Jesus testifies to the
glorious victory he has achieved over hell,
and expresses the adorable merits of his
Person. The Holy Name of God testi-
fies to his divinity, and contains within
itself all the perfections of the Creator;
it follows, therefore, that those who blas-
pheme these sacred names directly attack
God himself. Let us here recall those
words of Jesus : " I belong to my Father,
and my Father belongs to me." Jesus
became passive through the Incarnation ;
it is he who suffers in his Adorable Face
the outrages to the Name of God by
blasphemy. There is a look of dumb pain
upon the face of a man that is despised ;
his name and his face seem to bear an
analogy one to the other. Behold a man,
equally distinguished for his name and
good qualities, in the presence of his ene-

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mies. They do not lift their hands to
strike him, but they overwhelm him with
abuse ; they add derisive epithets to his
name in place of the honorable titles which
are his due. Observe, again, the look that
passes over this man's face. Would you
not think that all the abuse from the lips
of his enemies is centred here, causing him
to endure poignant anguish ? The face is
suffused with shame and vexation ; the op-
probrium and ignominy he suffers are
harder to bear than real pain in other
parts of his body. This, then, is a feeble
explanation of our Lord's Face outraged
by the blasphemy of the impious.

Represent to yourself this same man in
the presence of his friends, who, hearing
of the insults heaped upon him by his ene-
mies, make haste to console him. They
respect his dignity, do homage to his high
name by giving him all the titles that be-
long to him. Do you not observe how this
man's face changes under the sweet influ-
ence of this praise ? There is a halo on
his brow, which, spreading over the face,
causes it to beam brightly ; joy sparkles in

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his eye ; there is a smile upon his lips — in a
word, his faithful friends ha e healed the
agonizing wounds of that face outraged by
enemies ; honor has superseded opprobri-
um. This is done by the friends of Jesus
in the Work of Reparation ; the glory
with which they surround his Name beams
upon his august brow and causes his Holy
Face to rejoice.

2. Double motive for the Work of Repa-
ration through the Holy Face.

This work has two ends, the Reparation
of blasphemy and the Reparation of the
profanation of Holy Days; it therefore
embraces all outrages to God, and to his
Holy Name.

Should the devotion of the Holy Face
be united to this work ? Yes ; it forms
part of its riches, and is its most precious
ornament, since our Lord has made an
offering of his Holy Face as an object of
devotion to the members. They are all-
powerful with God because of the offering
they make him of that August and Divine
Face, whose sight is so pleasing to him
that it invariably softens his anger and

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obtains for poor sinners his infinite mercy.
Yes, when the Eternal Father contemplates
the Face of his well-beloved Son, which
has been buffeted, bruised, and covered
with ignominy, the sight moves the bowels
of his mercy. Let us endeavor to profit
by this precious gift, and let us beg this
Divine Saviour to teach us the patience of
his Face during the evil days.

3. Why the Holy Face is the Visible
Sign of Reparation,

This August Face offered to our devo-
tion is the ineffable mirror of the divine
perfection contained and expressed in the
Holy Name of God. As the Sacred Heart
of Jesus is the visible sign offered to our
devotion to typify the immensity of his
love in the Sacrament of the Altar ; in
like manner the Adorable Face of our Lord
.is the visible sign offered to our devotion
to repair the outrages committed by blas-
phemers towards the Majesty and Sove-
reignty of God, of which the Holy Face
is the form, the mirror or expression.
Thus by virtue of this Holy Face offered
to the Eternal Faiher we may appease his

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anger and obtain the conversion of the im-
pious and blasphemous.

One may say with truth that sectarians
and blasphemers renew towards the Holy
Face of our Lord the opprobrium of the
Passion. The impious who utter horrible
language and blaspheme against the Holy
Name of God, spitting in the Face of the
Saviour and covering it with filth ; and
sectarians who attack the Church and re-
ligion renew the many blows the Face of
our Lord has received, making this Di-
vine Face sweat again with their efforts
to efface his wonderful works. There
is need of more Veronicas to do honor
to this Divine Face, that has so few
to adore it. All those who dedicate
themselves to the Work of Reparation
fill the place of the pious Israelite, and
our Lord has constituted St. Louis, King
of France, as one of the protectors of this
Work of Reparation, because of the zeal
he showed for the glory of His Name.

4. The Office of the Pious Veronica.

The pious service rendered by St. Ye-
ronica to our Lord was that of wiping his

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Holy Face. Yes, all blasphemy hurled by
the impious against the divinity they cannot
reach falls, like the spittle of the Jews, on
the Holy Face of our Lord, who has offered
himself up as a victim for sinners. We
thus see that by giving ourselves up to the
exercise of repairing blasphemy, we render
our Lord the same service as that of the
pious Yeronica, and that he looks upon those
who offer it to him with the same benefi-
cent eyes as those with which he looked
upon that holy woman during the Passion.

5. Power of the Holy Face over St.
Peter.

There are men on earth who can restore
the body, but our Lord alone can restore
the soul to the image of God ; this,
then, is the grace the Divine Master has
promised to those wTho render to his Ado-
rable Face the homage and honor it merits,
with the intention to repair by this hom-
age the opprobrium it receives from blas-
phemers.

One sees in the Apostle St. Peter an ex-
ample of the power of the Holy Face.
This apostle had by his sin effaced the im-

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age of God in his soul, but Jesus turned
liis Holy Face towards the unfaithful apos-
tle and he became penitent : " Jesus look-
ed upon Peter, and Peter wept bitterly."
This Adorable Face is like the seal of the
Divinity, with power to imprint in the
souls of those who devote themselves to
it the image of God.

6. The Holy Face represents the Adora-
ble Trinity.

Remember, O my soul, the divine les-
son thy heavenly Spouse has taught thee
of the Adorable Face ; remember that this
Divine Head represents the Eternal Father,
who is not begotten ; that the Mouth of this
Holy Face represents the Divine Word
made Flesh by the Father, and the Eyes
of this Holy and Silent Face represent the
reciprocal love of the Father and the Son —
for his Divine Eyes have but one light,
one intelligence, and produce one only
love, which is that of the Holy Ghost ;
behold in the Hair the diverse perfections
of the Holy Trinity. Look upon the Ma-
jestic Head as a precious part of the Holy
Humanity of our Lord, the image of the

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Unity of God ; and it is this Adorable and
Silent Face of the Saviour that blasphemers
overwhelm with fresh insults. They thus
renew in some measure the sufferings of
the Passion in attacking by their blas-
phemy the Divinity of which it is the

Xfttte Scapular of tbe fbols face.

The Scapular of the Holy Face is a little
image of the Adorable Face, painted on
linen, to be worn with devotion by pious
souls as a testimony of their love towards
our Lord, as a preservation against tempta-
tions and dangers of soul and body. It
can be attached to the Scapular of our Lady
of Mount Carmel, or to any other the per-
son wears. There is no liturgical formali-
ty necessary for its reception, and the per-
son who takes this Scapular contracts no
other obligation than to wear it in the
spirit of faith and reparation.

It is a little fac-simile of the Veil of St.
Veronica, one of the greater relics of the
Vatican Basilica in Rome.

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Xittle Cbapiet of tbe 1fool£ jface*

The purpose of the Crown or Chaplet of
the Holy Face is to honor the five Wounds
pf our Lord Jesus Christ and to ask of God
the triumph of his Holy Church.

This Chaplet is composed of a cross and
thirty-nine beads ; of these six are large
beads and thirty-three small ones ; to this
Chaplet is attached a medal of the Holy
Face. It would be well to recite it daily
in order to obtain from God, by the Face
of his well-beloved Son, the triumph of
our holy mother, the Catholic Church. On
the cross, which reminds us of the mystery
of our Redemption, we begin the Chaplet
by saying the words : " Deics in adjuto-
rium meum intende * Domine ad adju-
vandum me festina " (" Incline unto my
aid, O God ; O Lord, make haste to help
me "), followed by the Gloria Patr% etc.

The thirty-three small beads represent
the thirty-three years of the mortal life of
our Divine Lord. The first thirty beads
recall to us the thirty years of his hidden
life, and are divided into five parts of six

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beads each, in honor of the five senses of
touch, hearing, sight, smell, and taste of
Jesus; and, as they were situated princi-
pally in his Holy Face, to make repara-
tion for all the sufferings which our Lord
has endured in his Face through each one
of these senses.

The six beads are preceded by a large
bead, followed by a Gloria Patri, etc., to
recall the sense we wish to honor. The
other beads mark the three years of the
public life of our Lord, and have for their
intention to honor all the Wounds of his
Adorable Face. These are also preceded
by a large bead, to be followed by a Gloria
Patri, etc., for the same intention.

On each large bead is said : " My Jesus,
mercy" (100 days' indulgence). On the
small beads is said: " Arise, O Lord, and
let thy enemies be scattered, and let those
that hate thee fly before thy Face."

The Gloria Patri, etc., is recited seven
times in honor of the seven last words of
Jesus upon the Gross and the seven Do-
lors of the Immaculate Virgin.

The Chaplet is concluded by saying on

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the medal : " God our protector, look down
upon us and cast thine eyes upon the Face
of thy Christ." *

(With the approbation of N. J. Perche, Archbishop
of New Orleans.)

an Bet of IResignation for tbe Sicft,

Thou didst speak, Lord Jesus, and the
sins of the happy paralytic were forgiven
ere thou hadst said, u Arise " (Mark ii. 2).

Knowing and believing firmly that thou
hast given to thy priests the power of re-
mittir\g sins, miserable sinner that I am, I
will at once go to the tribunal of penance
before imploring thee to cast the eyes of
thine infinite mercy upon my bodily in-
firmities, and, submitting my heart and
soul to thy holy will, O Lord, I will
await in peace the accomplishment of my
prayers on earth, with the hope of behold-
ing, praising, and blessing thine Adorable
Face in the eternity of heaven. Amen.

Formulas used by M. Dupont when an-
ointing the sick with the oil of the Holy

* This chaplet was composed by Sister Saint-Pierre.

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Face : " May the Lord deign to unite
with us in making this unction and re-
store this sick person to health." In the
name of the Father, etc. Or, "May the
holy names of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph be
known, blessed, and glorified throughout
the entire world." Amen.

(Imprimatur: 4. N. J. Perche, Archbishop 6f New
Orleans.)

H Collection of prapers

AND EXERCISES SUITABLE FOR REPARA-
TION.

(From the writings of Sister Saint-Pierre.)

The Act of Praise, or Golden Arrow.

May the most holy, most sacred, most
adorable, most incomprehensible and inef-
fable Name of God be for ever praised,
blessed, loved, adored, and glorified in hea-
ven and on earth by all the creatures of
God, and by our Saviour Jesus Christ in
the Most Holy Sacrament of the Altar.
Amen.

(This act of praise in honor of the three Persons of
the Holy. Trinity is to be repeated three times.)

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Prayer to the Eternal Father.
O Ail-Powerful and Eternal God, it is
through the Heart of Jesus, thy Divine
Son, my way, my truth, and my life, that
I approach thee. I come through that
Adorable Heart, in union with the holy
angels and all the saints, to praise, bless,
adore, and glorify thy Holy Name, scorned
and blasphemed by so large a number of
sinners. Accompanying in thought the
good spirits, ministers of thy mercy, 1
make the circuit of the globe ; seeking all
souls redeemed by the blood of thy only
Son, I offer them to thee by the hands of
the Holy Virgin and glorious St. Joseph,
under the protection of the angels and all
the saints, supplicating thee, in the Name
and through the merits of our Saviour
Jesus, to convert all blasphemers and pro-
faners of thy :Holy Days, that we may
have but one voice, one mind, and one
heart to praise, bless, love, adore, and glo-
rify thy Holy Name through the height,
the depth, the breadth, the immensity, the
fulness of honor of the praises and infi-
nite adoration that the Sacred Heart of

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thy well-beloved Son accords thee — that
Sacred Name which is the delight of the
Holy Trinity.

Twenty-four Aspirations to Repair the Blas-
phemies that occur during the twenty-four
hours of the day.

(The Magnificat is said here.)

1. In union with the Sacred Heart of
Jesus, come let ns adore the admirable
Name of God, which is above all names.

2. In union with the holy heart of Mary,
come, etc.

3. In union with the glorious St. Joseph,
come, etc.

4. In union with holy John the Baptist,
come, etc.

5. In union with the choir of Seraphim,
come, etc.

6. In union with the choir of Cherubim,
come, etc*

7. In union with the choir of Thrones,
come, etc.

8. In union with the choir of Domina-
tions, come, etc.

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9. In union with the choir of Yirtues,
come, etc.

10. In union with the choir of Powers,
come, etc.

11. In union with the choir of Princi-
palities, come, etc.

12. In union with the choir of Arch-
angels, come, etc.

13. In union with the choir of Angels,
come, etc.

14. In union with the Seven Spirits that
are before the Throne of God, and the
twenty-four elders, come, etc.

15. In union with the choir of Patri-
archs, come, etc.

16. In union with the choir of Prophets,
come, etc.

17. In union with the choir of the
Apostles and the Four Evangelists, come
etc.

18. In union with the choir of Martyrs,
come, etc.

19. In union with the choir of the holy
Pontiffs, come, etc.

20. In union with the choir of holy Con-
fessors, come, etc.

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21. In union with the choir of holy Vir-
gins, come, etc.

22. In union with the choir of holy Wo-
men, come, etc.

23. In union with all the Celestial Courts,
come, etc.

24. In union with all the Church and in
the name of all men, come let us adore the
admirable Name of God, and let us pros-
trate ourselves before him. Let us weep
in the presence of God who made us, for he
is the Lord our God ; we are his people, and
the sheep of his pasture.

Salutations to Our Lord Jesus Christ in Re-
paration of Blasphemy against his Sacred
Person.

In union with the whole Church and the
hearts of Mary and Joseph, all burning
with love, and in the name of all men we
salute, we adore, and we love thee, O Jesus
of Nazareth, King of the Jews, full of
sweetness and humility, of grace and
truth. Mercy and justice belong to thee ;
love is thy substance ; thou art the Christ,
only Son of the living God, and the

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blessed fruit of the womb of the glorious
Virgin Mary.

O Jesus, Good Shepherd, who didst give
thy life for thy flock, by all thy holy
wounds, thy divine tears, and thy precious
sweat, by all the sighs, groans, pains, love,
the merits of the thirty-three years of thy
holy life contained within the ineffable
sanctuary of thy loving Heart, take pity on
us poor and miserable sinners. Convert
all blasphemers, and grant us a portion of
thy divine merits now and at the hour of
our death. Amen.

In this manner we must salute our Lord
three timQS, to honor his divine life, his
glorious life, and his mortal life.

Aspirations.

Eternal Father, I offer thee the body and
blood of our Lord Jesus Christ in expia-
tion of our sins and for the needs of thy
Holy Church. Amiable Heart of Jesus,
our mediator, appease thy Father and save
sinners.

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Powerful Heart of Mary, refuge of sin-
ners, avert the shafts of divine justice.

St. Michael, pray for us.

St. Martin, pray for us.

St. Louis, pray for us.

O God our Protector, look upon us and
cast thine eyes on the Face of thy Christ
(Ps. lxxxviii. 9).

A Coronet to the Glory of the Holy Name of
God for the Reparation of Blasphemy.

Instead of the " Credo" will be said:

"We adore thee, O Jesus, and we bless

thee, because by thy holy Cross thou hast

redeemed the world.

On the three small beads of the cross say :
May the ever Holy Name of God be
glorified by the Holy Soul of the Word
made flesh. May the ever Holy Name of
God be glorified by the Sacred Heart of
the Incarnate Word. May the ever Adora-
ble Name of God be glorified by all the
wounds of the Incarnate Word.

On the three large beads say :
We invoke thee, O Sacred Name of the

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living God, by the voice of Jesus in the
Blessed Sacrament, and offer thee, by the
blessed hands of Mary Immaculate, all the
Sacred Hosts upon our altars as a sacrifice
of reparation for all the blasphemies that
outrage thy Holy Name.

On each of the ten small beads :

1. I salute thee, O Holy Name of the
living God, through the Heart of Jesus in
the Blessed Sacrament.

2. I venerate thee, O Holy Name of the
living God, through the Heart of Jesus in
the Blessed Sacrament.

3. I adore thee, O Holy Name of the liv-
ing God, through the Heart of Jesus in the
Blessed Sacrament.

4. I give thee glory, O Sacred Name of
the living God, through the Heart of Jesus
in the Blessed Sacrament.

5. I praise thee, O Sacred Name of the
living God, through the Heart of Jesus in
the Blessed Sacrament.

6. I admire thee, O Sacred Name of the
living God, through the Heart of Jesus in
the Blessed Sacrament.

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7. I extol thee, O Sacred Name of the
living God, through the Heart of Jesus in
the Blessed Sacrament.

8. I magnify thee, O Sacred Name of
the living God, through the Heart of Jesus
in the Blessed Sacrament.

9. I love thee, O Sacred Name of the
living God, through the Heart of Jesus in
the Blessed Sacrament.

10. I bless thee, O Sacred Name of the
living God, through the Heart of Jesus in
the Blessed Sacrament.

Loving Aspirations to our Blessed Lord to
Repair the Blasphemy of the Jews.

O Jesus, eternal truth and wisdom, who
wast called a tempter and a madman, I
adore thee and love thee with all my heart.

O Jesus, in whom dwelt all the riches
of divine science, who wast looked upon as
ignorant and as the son of a carpenter, I
adore thee, etc.

O Jesus, source of life, who didst hear
the Jews say of thee, " Will he kill him-
self ? " because thou saidst, " I go where

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thou canst not follow me," I adore thee,
etc.

O Jesus, Divine Word, who wast sup-
posed to be possessed by a devil and wast
called a Samaritan, I adore thee, etc.

O Jesus, God thrice holy, who wast
treated as a sinner by the High-Priests, I
adore thee, etc.

O Jesus, model of sobriety, whose ene-
mies accused thee of gluttony, I adore thee,
etc.

O Jesus, enemy of sin, but full of pity
for the guilty, who wast called the friend
of publicans and sinners, I adore thee, etc.

O Jesus, the splendor of the Father and
the image of his substance, who wast ac-
cused of being a false prophet, I adore
thee, etc.

O Jesus, the enemy of falsehood, who
didst hear the Jews cast doubts on thy
words by saying with irony, "Thou art
not yet fifty and hast seen Abraham ? " I
adore thee, etc.

O Jesus, all-powerful God, who, to con-
form with our nature, which thou hadst
taken upon thyself, wished to hide and

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go from the Temple, that thou mightest
not be stoned by thine enemies, I adore
thee, etc.

O Jesus, only Son and faithful worship-
per of the living God, who wast accused
by the High-Priest of blasphemy and wast
adjudged worthy of death, I adore thee, etc.

O Jesus, King of glory, who, full of
sweetness and humility, didst permit thy
Face to be spit upon, thy Head to be cov-
ered with a veil and beaten and bruised,
I adore thee, etc.

O Jesus, who dost fathom our hearts and
loins, to whom nothing is hidden, and who
didst suffer without complaint these inso-
lent words, "If thou art the Christ, tell
who has struck thee," I adore thee, etc.

O Jesus, King of peace, accused of per-
verting the nation and preventing the pay-
ment of the tribute-money, of causing the
people to revolt and calling thyself King
and Messiah, I adore thee, etc.

O Jesus, King of kings, scorned by
Herod and his court, and dressed in deri-
' sion in a white robe like a madman, I adore
thee, etc.

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O Jesus, full of love, who didst hear the cry
of the people, " Let this one die, and restore
Barabbas to us," " Let his blood be upon us
and upon our children," I adore thee, etc.

O Jesus, King of heaven and earth,
crowned with thorns, shamefully beaten,
and so cruelly outraged by these words,
" We salute thee, O King of the Jews," I
adore thee, etc.

O Jesus, of infinite bounty, principle of
all being, Sovereign Master of the world,
who didst hear these words of doom, " Cru-
cify him, crucify him ! lead him away ! lead
him away! We have no other king but
Caesar," I adore thee, etc.

O Jesus, worthy of all praise, who when
upon the Cross wast blasphemed by the
passers-by, the impenitent thief, the High-
Priests, the elders of the people, and the
scribes and soldiers, I adore thee, etc.

O Jesus, holy victim of sinners, who
didst hear thine enemies say to thee, " He
saved others and cannot save himself ; let
this Christ, this King of Israel, now come
down from the Cross, that we may see and
believe in him," I adore thee, etc.

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O Jesus, full of confidence, love, and
respect for thy Divine Father, who wast
wounded with the most lively pain when
they said on seeing thee die, " He puts his
trust in God ; if God love hirn let him de-
liver him now, for he has said, I am the
Son of God," I adore thee, and I love thee
with all my heart.

Prayer.

I bitterly compassionate, O my Saviour,
Jesus Christ, the anguish endured by thy
divine Heart when thou didst hear blasphe-
mies that thine enemies poured forth against
thee and thy heavenly Father ; but what,
O Jesus, must be thy sorrow in seeing
that after thou hast given thy life, and
the last drop of thy blood, for the sal-
vation of men, thou shouldst still have,
after the lapse of centuries, new enemies
who reiterate a thousand times these blas-
phemies ! Accept, my sweet Jesus, the ar-
dent desire we have to repair all the out-
rages and scorn thou hast received, and
still dost receive every day, from heretics

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and the impious. Oh! why cannot we
protect thee from the anger of those that
hate thee, and who are leagued against
thee and thy Holy Church, thy stain-
less spouse? Repeat with us, O merciful
Jesus, that touching prayer thou didst
offer to thy Divine Father before breath-
ing thy last sigh : " Forgive them, Father,
for they know not what they do !" We
offer thee, as reparation for the many of-
fences against thee, all the glory, honor,
and praise, and all the joy, that the Holy
Virgin and St. Joseph, the Saints and
elect, did give thee and will ever give
thee in time and eternity. Amen.

Coronet

In honor of the Holy Name of Jesus, for the re-
paration of the blasphemies and injuries inflicted
I by the Jews when they crowned Him with thorns.

I salute thee, "Word of God, Saviour of
men ; I adore thee, Sacred Host, true and
living flesh, perfect divinity, true God and
true man. O Jesus, who gavest me my

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life, I adore thee and I love thee with all
my heart.

On the three small beads of the cross say :
We give thee glory, O Jesus, and we
invoke thy Holy Name.

On the five large beads say :
The Gloria Patr% one Pater, and one
Ave.

On each of the ten small beads say :

1. May the Holy Name of Jesus be
blessed !

2. May the Holy Name of Jesus be our
meditation !

3. May the Holy Name of Jesus fill us
with wonder !

4. May the Holy Name of Jesus be
glorified !

5. May the Holy Name of Jesus be
loved !

6. May the Holy Name of Jesus be
crowned with honor !

7. May the Holy Name of Jesus be ex-
alted !

8. May the Holy Name of Jesus be rev-
erenced !

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9. May the Holy Name of Jesus be in-
voked !

10. May the Holy Name of Jesus be
praised and blessed in time and in eternity !

Prayer to our Lord Jesus Christ, the True Re-
pairer of Outrages committed against the
Glory of his Father.

O Jesus, at the sight of the blasphemers
of the Holy Name of God we pray thee to
renew with us the prayer thou didst ad-
dress to thy Divine Father, which has been
transmitted to us by St. John, thy beloved
disciple : " My Father, glorify thy Name ! "
In that hour came a voice from heaven
saying these words : " I have already glo-
rified it, and shall glorify it yet more!"
May this Voice be heard on earth ; we
beg it of thee by thy sacred wounds and
Adorable Face. As to ourselves, we will
not cease to supplicate thee in thine own
words : " Our Father who art in heaven,
hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom
come, thy will be done on earth as it is
in heaven."

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Appendix.

Xitanp of tbe 1bol£ jface

In Reparation for Blasphemies, and to implore
of God, by the Adorable Face of his Son, the
conversion of blasphemers.

Lord, have mercy on us.

Jesus Christ, have mercy on us.

Lord, have mercy on us.

Jesus Christ, hear us.

Jesus Christ, graciously hear us.

Holy Virgin Mary, pray for us.

O Adorable Face, adored with profound
respect by Mary and Joseph when they
saw thee for the first time ; have mercy on
us. Gloria Patri.

O Adorable Face, which in the sta-
ble of Bethlehem didst ravish with joy
the Angels, the shepherds, and the wise
men,

O Adorable Face, which in the
Temple didst transpierce with a dart
of love the saintly Simeon and the
prophetess Anna,

O Adorable Face, which wast bathed
in tears in thy holy infancy,

O Adorable Face, which, appearing
in the Temple, didst fill with admira-
tion the Doctors of the Law,

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Appendix. 163

O Adorable Face, whose charms
were so ravishing, and whose grace was
so attractive,

O Adorable Face, whose nobility
characterized every feature,.

O Adorable Face, contemplated by
the Angels,

O Adorable Face, sweet delight of
the Saints,

O Adorable Face, masterpiece of the tSj
Holy Grhost, in which the Eternal <$
Father is well pleased,

O Adorable Face, delight of Mary |
and Joseph, <^

O Adorable Face, ineffable mirror of
the divine perfections,

O Adorable Face, which appeasest
the anger of God,

O Adorable Face, which makest the ^
devils tremble, ^

O Adorable Face, treasure of grace §
and blessings,

O Adorable Face, exposed in the
desert to the inclemencies of the
weather,

O Adorable Face, which wast bathed
with sweat in thy journeys and scorched
with the heat and sun,

O Adorable Face, whose expression
was all divine,

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164 Appendix.

O Adorable Face, whose modesty
and meekness attracted both just and
sinners,

O Adorable Face, troubled and
weeping at the tomb of Lazarus,

O Adorable Face, brilliant as the
sun and radiant with glory on Mount
Thabor,

O Adorable Face, sorrowful at the
sight of Jerusalem and shedding tears
over that ungrateful city,

O Adorable Face, bowed to the
earth in the Garden of Olives and
covered with confusion for our sins,

O Adorable Face, bathed in a bloody
sweat,

O Adorable Face, kissed by the
traitor Judas,

O Adorable Face, whose sanctity
and majesty struck the soldiers with
fear and cast them to the ground,

O Adorable Face, struck by an in-
famous servant, blindfolded, and pro-
faned by the sacrilegious hands of
thine enemies,

O Adorable Face, defiled with spit-
tle and bruised by so many buffets and
blows,

O Adorable Face, whose divine look
wounded the heart of Peter with re-
pentant sorrow and love,

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O Adorable Face, humbled for us at ^
the tribunals of Jerusalem,

O Adorable Face, which didst pre-
serve thy serenity when Pilate pro-
nounced the fatal sentence,

O Adorable Face, covered with
sweat and blood, and falling into the
mire under the weight of the cross,

O Adorable Face, wiped with a veil
by a pious woman on the road to Cal-
vary,

O Adorable Face, raised on the in-
strument of the most shameful punish-
ment,

O Adorable Face, whose incompar-
able beauty was obscured under the
fearful cloud of the sins of the world,

O Adorable Face, covered with the
sad shades of death,

O Adorable Face, washed and anoint-
ed by Mary and the holy women, and
covered with a shroud,

O Adorable Face, enclosed in the
sepulchre,

O Adorable Face, all resplendent
with glory and beauty on the day of
the resurrection,

O Adorable Face, all dazzling with
light at the moment of thy ascension,

O Adorable Face, hidden in the Eu-
charist,

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O Adorable Face, which wilt appear at
the end of time in the clouds, with great
power and majesty, Have mercy on us.
Gloria.

O Adorable Face, which wilt cause sin-
ners to tremble, Have mercy on us. Gloria.

O Adorable Face, which wilt fill the just
with joy for all eternity, Have mercy on
us. Gloria.

Lamb of God, who takest away the sins
of the world, Spare us, 0 Lord.

Lamb of God, who takest away the sins
of the world, Graciously hear us, 0 Lord.

Lamb of God, who takest away the sins
of the world, Have mercy on us, 0 Lord.

Prayer.

I salute, adore, and love thee, O Jesus,
my Saviour, covered anew with outrages
by blasphemers, and I offer thee, through
the heart of thy Blessed Mother, the wor-
ship of all the angels and saints, as an in-
cense and a perfume of sweet odor, most
humbly beseeching thee, by the virtue of
thy Sacred Face, to repair and renew in
me and in all men thine image disfigured
by sin. Amen.

Pater, Ave, Gloria.

Appendix. 167

Another Prayer.

I salute, adore, and love thee, O Ador-
able Face of Jesus my Beloved, noble im-
age of the Divinity ; with all the powers of
my soul I apply myself to thee, and pray
thee most humbly to imprint in us all the
features of thy divine likeness. Amen.

By a Rescript dated 27th of January, 1853, His
Holiness Pope Pius IX. grants to all /who recite with
a contrite heart these prayers in honor of the Holy
Face of Jesus Christ an indulgence of a hundred
days for each time, applicable to the souls in Purga-
tory.

Bet of IReparation

for blasphemy and irreverence, to be recited at the
- monthly meeting of the Confraternity.

O God, infinitely worthy of all adoration
and love, I prostrate myself at thy feet, fill-
ed with grief for the blasphemies uttered
against thy Holy Name, and for the of-
fences committed against thy divine wor-
ship and the observances of thy Church.

O my God, this blasphemy is the profana-
tion of that which is most holy in the height
of thine inaccessible sanctuary ; it is an at-
tack upon thine infinite majesty ; an out-
rage against the Face of thy Divine Son ;
a crime without excuse, without any other

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motive than that wickedness which hates
thee, O God, infinitely worthy of all love !

We beg pardon, O Lord, a thousand times
pardon, for these blasphemies. "Would that
we could prevent them by the sacrifice of
all that we are or that we possess ! At
least it is in the sincerity of our hearts that
we desire with all our power to combat this
horrible crime, and for all we hear or
know to offer instantly, by the merits of
the Face of thy Christ, our humble and
sorrowful expiation.

But that which is most grievous to us is
that, while blasphemy and infidelity daily in-
crease, the adoration due to thee diminishes.
Alas ! now, even more than in the days of the
prophet Ezechiel, men neglect and profane
thy holy days, because their hearts are given
to idols. Slaves of avarice and of pleasure,
they have no longer time for thy worship
nor attraction to thine altars. The days
set apart for thy service are profaned by
their worldliness or pleasure. They aban-
don thine house ; they fly from the preach-
ing of thy word; they despise the sacra-
ments and graces of the sanctuary to give
themselves to labors forbidden or to amuse-
ments still more criminal.

O Lord, grant us the grace to make re-
paration for this contempt and forgetful-
ness of thee by the zeal and fervor of our

Appendix. 169

adoration. Bless this Confraternity estab-
lished under the invocation of the Ador-
able Face of Jesus Christ, that by its pray-
ers and sacrifices it may bring back to thy
worship and to the observances of thy
Church the unfaithful who have strayed
from thee. Receive our vows and promises
never to transgress thy sacred precepts,
neither in our own persons nor by those
who are under our charge ; and, in every
way possible to us, to procure the obedi-
ence and honor which are due to thee.

May the most Adorable Name of the
Lord be glorified for ever !

May the holy days of thy Church be
sanctified by all men ! Amen. Amen.

Saint Michael, Pray for us.

Saint Peter, Pray for us.

Saint Martin, Pray for us.

Saint Louis, Pray for us.

Saint Yeronica, Pray for us.

O God, our protector, look upon the
Face of thy Christ, and we shall be saved !

Hn ©ffertna

of the Infinite Merits of our Lord Jesus Christ to
his Eternal Father in order to appease the divine
justice and draw mercy on France.

Eternal Father, turn thine offended eyes
from culpable France, whose face has be-

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come hideous in thy eyes, and look upon
the Face of thy Son which we offer thee —
this well-beloved Son, in whom thou art
well pleased. Listen, we beseech thee, to
the voice of his Blood and his wounds,
which cry out for mercy.

Eternal Father, behold the Incarnation
of Jesus, thy Divine Son, and his sojourn
in the womb of his Blessed Mother. We
offer this to thee for the honor and glory
of thy Holy Name and for the salvation
of France.

Eternal Father, behold the birth of
Jesus in the stable of Bethlehem and the
mysteries of his most holy infancy. We
offer them to thee, etc.

Eternal Father, behold the poor, hidden,
and laborious life of Jesus at Nazareth.
We offer it to thee, etc.

Eternal Father, behold the baptism of
Jesus and his forty days' retreat in the
desert. We offer these to thee, etc.

Eternal Father, behold the journeys, the
vigils, the prayers, miracles, and sermons of
Jesus. We offer them to thee, etc.

Eternal Father, behold the Last Supper
which Jesus made with his disciples, at
which he washed their feet and instituted
the august sacrament of the Eucharist. We
•offer this to thee, etc.

Eternal Father, behold the agony of Jesus

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in the Garden of Olives, the sweat of blood
which covered his Body and flowed to the
ground. We offer this to thee, etc.

Eternal Father, behold the outrages
which Jesus received before his judges,
and his condemnation to death. We offer
them to thee, etc.

Eternal Father, behold Jesus burdened
with his cross and walking towards the
place where he is to be immolated. We
offer him to thee, etc.

Eternal Father, behold Jesus crucified
between two thieves, tasting gall and vine-
gar, blasphemed by the Jews, and dying to
repair thy glory and to save the world. We
offer him to thee, etc.

Eternal Father, behold the Sacred Head of
Jesus crowned with thorns. We offer it to
thee, etc.

Eternal Father, behold the Adorable Face
of Jesus bruised with buffets, covered with
sweat, dust, and blood. We offer it to
thee, etc.

Eternal Father, behold the Adorable Body
of Jesus taken down from the cross. We
offer it to thee, etc.,

Eternal Father, behold the heart, soul, and
divinity of Jesus, this holy Victim who in
dying has triumphed over sin. We offer
them to thee, etc.

Eternal Father, behold all that Jesus

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Christ, thy only Son, has done during the
thirty-three years of his mortal life to ac-
complish the work of our Redemption.
Behold all the mysteries of his holy life.
We offer them to thee, etc.

Eternal Father, behold all the desires, all
the thoughts, words, actions, virtues, per-,
fections, and prayers, of Jesus Christ ; also
all his sufferings and humiliations. We
offer them to thee, etc.

Eternal Father, behold the crib, the swad-
dling-bands which have served Jesus at his
birth. We offer them to thee, etc.

Eternal Father, behold the cross, the nails,
the crown of thorns, the reed, the bloody
scourge, the column, the lance, the sepul-
chre, the winding-sheet, and all the instru-
ments which were used in the Passion of
Jesus, thy Divine Son. We offer them to
thee, etc.

H fmnbreD ©fferfnas

oj our Lord Jesus Christ to Sis Eternal Father.

Thirty-three Offerings of Jesus Christ in his
Infancy and Hidden Life,

1. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus, In-
carnate in the womb of the Yirgin Mary
for the salvation of men.

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2. Eternal Father, I offer tliee Jesus,
sanctifying St. John the Baptist in the
womb of his mother, St. Elizabeth.

3. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus, a
captive for nine months in the chaste womb
of his Blessed Mother.

4. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus, re-
jected by the inhabitants of Bethlehem.

5. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus, com-
ing forth from the womb of his Mother and
born in a poor stable.

6. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus,
wrapped in swaddling-clothes and laid in a
manger.

7. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus,
trembling with cold and warmed by the
breath of an ox and an ass.

8. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus,
weeping for our sins in the manger.

9. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus, by
the hands of Mary and St. Joseph, for the
salvation of the world.

10. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus,
nursed by Mary.

11. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus,
adored by angels in the stable of Beth-
lehem.

12. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus,
adored by the poor shepherds.

13. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus,
circumcised and named Jesus, beginning

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to fulfil the office of Saviour in offering
thee the first-fruits of his Blood.

14. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus,
receiving the gifts and adorations of the
Magi.

15. Eternal Father, I offer thee all the
glory that Jesus has rendered thee during
the forty days he dwelt in the stable of
Bethlehem.

10. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus,
brought to the Temple by Mary and Jo-
seph, and received with great joy by the
holy old man Simeon and the prophetess
Anna.

17. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus,
who offers himself to thy divine justice to
be the repairer of thy outraged glory and
the holy victim of sinners.

18. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus,
fleeing into Egypt to avoid the murderous
hand of Herod.

19. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus,
poor and unknown in his exile, but tenderly
loved and profoundly adored by Mary, Jo-
seph, and the Angels.

20. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus,
carried in the arms of Mary and Joseph
and submitting to all the trials of infancy.

21. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus,
nursed by his Divine Mother for fifteen
months.

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22. Eternal Father, I offer thee the first
steps, the first words, the first actions of
thy Divine Son Jesus.

23. Eternal Father, I offer thee all that
Jesus suffered in the seven years of his exile
in Egypt.

24. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus,
returning to Nazareth between Mary and
Joseph.

25. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus,
growing in age and in wisdom before God
and men.

26. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus,
conducted to the Temple at the age of twelve
years to celebrate the Passover.

27. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus,
remaining three days in the Temple in the
midst of the Doctors of the Law, and fill-
ing them with admiration.

28. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus,
found by Mary and Joseph, returning to
Nazareth, and being perfectly submissive to
them.

29. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus,
hiding his glory in the workshop of St.
Joseph, and seeming to be only a carpen-
ter.

30. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus,
working for his support by the sweat of his
brow.

31. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus,

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assisting St. Joseph during his last illness
and at the hour of his death.

32. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus,
consoling Mary, his Blessed Mother, for
the death of her holy spouse.

33. Eternal Father, 1 offer thee all the
glory that Jesus has rendered thee during
the thirty-three years of his hidden and la-
borious life, also all the merits he has ac-
quired for us.

Eternal Father, I offer thee all the glory
that our Divine Saviour Jesus has ren-
dered thee during the thirty years of his
hidden and laborious life, and all the merits
he has acquired for us from the moment of
his Divine Incarnation until his evangel-
ical Life. I make this offering for the
honor and glory of thy Holy Name, in
reparation for the indignities offered our
Saviour; finally, for the wants of the
Holy Church, the salvation of France, and
the Work of Reparation.

Thirty-three Offerings of Jesus in his Evan-
gelical Life.

34. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus,
baptized in the river Jordan by St. John the
Baptist.

35. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus,

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led by the spirit into the desert, and suffer-
ing there hunger and thirst.

36. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus,
spending his nights in the desert among
wild beasts.

37. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus,
passing days and nights in prayer, water-
ing the ground with his divine tears, in
expiation for our sins.

38. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus,
tempted by the evil spirit to change stones
into bread.

39. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus,
carried by Satan to the top of the Temple,
and tempted by this evil spirit to cast him-
self down.

40. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus,
carried by Satan to the top of a high moun-
tain with the promise of all the kingdoms
of the world.

41. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus,
triumphing over the temptations of the
evil spirit and confronting him with the
words of Holy Scripture.

42. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus, in
the desert taking the food ministered by
the Angels.

43. Eternal Father, I offer thee all the
glory that Jesus has rendered thee in the
desert and all the merits he has acquired
for us.

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44. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus,
coming forth from the desert and going to
make known to his Blessed Mother the
mission he was about to commence.

45. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus,
choosing poor fishermen for his Apostles.

46. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus,
going from city to city, from town to town,
preaching everywhere the Kingdom of God,
and making known his Divine Father.

47. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus,
followed by immense crowds even to the
deserts .

48. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus,
multiplying the loaves and fishes to feed
the multitude.

49. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus,
consoling the afflicted.

50. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus,
curing the sick and raising the dead.

51. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus,
driving out the evil spirit from those who
were possessed.

52. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus,
giving sight to the blind and hearing to the
deaf.

53. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus,
curing the lame and making the dumb
to speak.

54. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus,
converting sinners and doing good to all.

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55. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus,
weeping for the death of Lazarus and rais-
ing him to life.

56. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus,
converting Mary Magdalen.

57. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus,
weary by the wayside and seated on Jacob's
Well.

58. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus,
asking drink of the Samaritan woman,
converting her, and making known to her
that he was the promised Messias.

59. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus,
confounding his enemies with an admirable
wisdom when they presented before him a
woman taken in adultery.

60. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus,
driving the sellers out of the Temple.

61. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus,
transfigured on Mt. Thabor, conversing with
Moses and Elias on the greatness of the
sorrows of his Passion.

62. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus,
embracing and blessing little children, bid-
ding us to become as one of them to enter
the Kingdom of Heaven.

63. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus,
entering the city of Jerusalem in triumph,
and received as a King by the people.

64. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus,
weeping for the sins of Jerusalem.

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65. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus
alone and abandoned, obliged on the even-
ing of the Feast to seek the hospitality of
Martha and Mary, at Bethany.

66. Eternal Father, I offer thee all the
glory that Jesus has rendered thee during
the three years of his divine preachings.

Eternal Father, I offer thee all the glory
that Jesus, our Divine Saviour, has ren-
dered thee, all the infinite merits he has
acquired for us from the moment of his
evangelical life until his Passion.

I make this offering for the honor and
glory of thy Holy Name, to repair the out-
rages offered our Divine Saviour ; finally,
for the wants of the Holy Church, the sal-
vation of France, and the extension of the
Work of Reparation.

Thirty-four Offerings of Jesus in Ms Suffering
and Glorious Life.

67. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus,
sold for thirty pieces of silver by the trai-
tor Judas.

68. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus,
taking his Last Supper with his Apostles.

69. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus,
humbling himself unto washing the feet of
his Apostles.

70. Eternal Father, I offer, thee Jesus,

Appendix. 181

instituting the Adorable Sacrament of the
Eucharist and ordaining his Apostles priests
of the New Law.

71. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus,
praying and in an agony in the Garden of
Olives.

72. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus,
suffering in his Divine Heart all the sor-
rows of his Passion and watering the earth
with a profuse sweat of blood.

73. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus,
sorrowful unto death in the Garden of
Olives, burdened with all the sins of the
world, and accepting the chalice from thy
Hand.

74. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus,
betrayed and kissed by the perfidious Ju-
das, delivering himself up to his enemies
to be bound and blindfolded for our sins.

75. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus,
abandoned by his disciples, maltreated and
outraged by the soldiers, and led to the
house of the high-priest Annas.

76. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus,
interrogated and receiving a blow from a
servant.

77. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus,
conducted to the house of Caiphas and ac-
cused by false witnesses.

78. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus,
treated as a blasphemer because he declared

182 Appendix.

to his enemies that he was the Son of
God.

79. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus,
despised, struck, and spit upon during that
horrible night, and treated as the vilest
slave.

80. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus,
-conducted in chains to Pilate's house.

81. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus,
led to the court of Herod and despised by
that impious king.

82. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus,
reconducted to the house of Pilate, treated
with contempt and humiliations on the
streets of Jerusalem by a nation which he
had overwhelmed with benefits.

83. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus,
tied to the column and torn by the stripes
of the scourge.

84. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus,
covered with wounds and blood, trampled

' upon by his executioners.

85. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus,
arrayed as a mock-king, crowned with
thorns, robed in a scarlet mantle, his arms
tied, and a reed for a sceptre in his
Hand.

86. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus,
outraged, despised, and then shown to the
people.

87. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus,

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rejected by his people, who with loud voices
demanded his death and preferred to him an
infamous thief, Barabbas.

88. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus,
condemned by Pilate to the death of the
cross.

89. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus,
given over to an insolent multitude, who
vent upon this sweet Lamb, so meek and
humble of heart, all that the darkest malice
could devise.

90. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus,
going forth from Pilate's hall between the
two thieves, carrying the cross upon his
Divine Shoulders, bruised and bleeding.

91. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus,
exhausted by fatigue, falling several times
under the heavy burden of his cross, beaten
and overwhelmed with injurious treatment
by his executioners.

92. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus
on the summit of Calvary, despoiled of his
garments and extending himself on the tree
of the cross as a Lamb without stain.

93. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus,
nailed with heavy blows of the hammer to
the cross.

94. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus,
suspended for three hours between heaven
and earth, satiated with revilings, partaking
of gall and vinegar, and tasting with de-

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light the intensity of interior and exterior
sufferings.

95. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus,
asking forgiveness for his executioners,
granting pardon to the good thief, and
giving us his most Blessed Mother.

96. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus,
^consummating his sacrifice and yielding up
his Holy Soul into thy Hands, uttering a
loud cry to call all sinners to him, inclining
his Head to give them the kiss of peace
and the last sigh of his Heart.

. 97. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus,
his Heart pierced by a lance, his Sacred
Body covered with wounds and blood,
taken down from the cross and placed in
the arms of his Divine Mother.

98. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus,
embalmed and shrouded by his Holy Mo-
ther, assisted by his faithful friends ; then
carried to the sepulchre and remaining
therein three days, as he had foretold.

99. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus,
rising victorious from the tomb and visit-
ing his Blessed Mother.

100. Eternal Father, I offer thee Jesus,
appearing to his Apostles and the holy
women for their consolation and instruc-
tion, gloriously ascending to Heaven in
their presence forty days after his Resur-
rection.

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Eternal Father, I offer thee all the glory
that Jesus Christ, our Divine Saviour, has
rendered thee, as well as all the merits he
has acquired for us during his sorrowful
and glorious life. I make this offering for
the honor and glory of thy Holy Name, in
reparation for the indignities offered to our
Saviour — in fine, for the needs of the Holy
Church, for the salvation of France and
the entire world, and for the extension of
the "Work of Reparation.

This is my well-beloved Son, in whom I
am, well pleased. Hear ye him.

In truth I say to thee that all thou wilt
ask the Father in my Name he will grant.
Ask, and thou shall receive.

Zhc Sacteb tbumanits of Jesus,

And the holy use he made of his Senses, offered to
the Eternal Father to repair and efface the sins
we have committed by oars.

Eternal Father, I offer thee the Sacred
Feet of Jesus, walking and travelling, and
finally pierced by rough nails, to repair our
criminal steps.

Eternal Father, I offer thee all the de-
vout and respectful prostrations of Jesus
before thy Divine Majesty, to repair all
our irreverences in thy holy presence.

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Eternal Father, I offer tliee the Divine
Hands of Jesus, which accomplished so
many good works, and nevertheless were
pierced by rough nails, to repair all the
sins of our wicked hands and our iniqui-
tous works.

Eternal Father, I offer thee the Divine
Arms of Jesus, fatigued by labor and torn
by the whips of his executioners, to atone
for our sins of sloth and all our other
crimes.

Eternal Father, I offer thee the Divine
Head of Jesus, crowned with thorns, his
hair covered with blood, to atone for our
sins of pride and all our criminal thoughts.

Eternal Father, I offer thee the Adorable
Eyes and looks of Jesus, full of sweetness
and majesty, to atone for our sins of im-
modesty and curiosity.

Eternal Father, I offer thee also his
sleep, his vigils, his tears which flowed
from his Divine Eyes, to merit the pardon
of our falilts.

Eternal Father, I offer thee the mortifi-
cation of the smell of Jesus, to atone for
all the sins of sensuality of which we are
guilty.

Eternal Father, I offer thee the Ador-
able Mouth of Jesus, his divine words, and
his admirable silence, to repair all the sins
that our bad and unruly tongue has com-

Appendix. 187

mitted. I offer thee also his fasts and his
frugal meals, to repair all our sins of glut-
tony and intemperance.

Eternal Father, I offer thee the Ador-
able Face of Jesus, covered with spittle,
sweat, dust, and blood, bruised by buffets,
and his beard torn out, to repair the pride
and vanity, also all the other sins, of world-
lings.

Eternal Father, I offer thee the prayers,
praises, and thanksgivings of Jesus, to re-
pair blasphemies and all sins committed
against the glory of thy Name.

Eternal Father, I offer thee the Sacred
Body of Jesus, covered with wounds, to
repair all the sins of our corrupt flesh.
We offer thee the seven effusions of his
precious Blood, to purify us from our
crimes.

Eternal Father, I offer thee the inflamed
Heart of Jesus, pierced by a lance, to re-
pair all the sins committed by our hearts.
I offer also all the desires, sighs, thoughts,
affections, prayers, and virtues, all the ador-
able perfections of this Divine Heart, to
cover the poverty of our poor, miserable
hearts.

Eternal Father, I offer thee the holy
Soul of Jesus, that sacrificed itself for us
and gave itself into thy hands at the mo-
ment of death. By the glory and merits

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of this most holy Soul, we pray thee to par-
don and justify our criminal souls.

Eternal Father, I offer thee the divine,
glorious, and laborious life of Jesus. "We
beseech thee, by the holiness of his interior
life, to pardon our lives, spent in indiffer-
ence and dissipation.

Eternal Father, I offer thee the eternal
birth of Jesus in the splendor of thy glory ;
I offer also all the praises, honor, and eternal
love he has for thee, to repair all the impie-
ties and blasphemies of poor blinded sinners.

Eternal Father, I offer thee this Divine
Jesus, to adore, love, and glorify in him
and by him all thy adorable perfections
and thy Sacred Name, which is unknown
to creatures, but which expresses all that
thou art, and which thy Divine Son Jesus
alone knows and adores in spirit and in
truth, in the name of all souls redeemed
by his precious Blood.

I salute, adore, and love thee, O God the
Father and God the Son, in the ineffable
embraces of thy Divinity. I embrace with
affection in the Sacred Heart of Jesus all
creatures of heaven and earth, and I kiss
thee with the eternal kiss of the Holy
Ghost.

God has so loved the world that he has
given his only-begotten Son to be its Re-
deemer.

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Hn ©ffering

To the Eternal Father of the Tilings ivhich his
Adorable Son used during his Mortal Life —
Precious Belies of Jesus.

Eternal Father, I offer thee the manger
and hay upon which Jesus was laid at his
birth. I offer also his poor swaddling-
clothes and bands.

Eternal Father, I offer thee the two little
doves and five pieces of silver given by the
Blessed Virgin and St. Joseph to redeem
Jesus at his Presentation.

Eternal Father, I offer thee the tunic
which Mary wove for the Infant Jesus.

Eternal Father, I offer thee the cup from
which the Infant Jesus drank.

Eternal Father, I offer thee the hammer,
axe, saw, and other tools which the Divine
Carpenter Jesus used.

Eternal Father, I offer thee all the work
he made.

Eternal Father, I offer thee the scourge
which Jesus made with his Divine Hands
to drive the sellers from the Temple.

Eternal Father, I offer thee the four
didrachmas which Jesus made St. Peter
take from the fish's mouth to pay the
tribute.

Eternal Father,rI offer thee the basin in
which Jesus washed the feet of his Apos-

190 Appendix.

ties, and the linen with which he was
girded.

Eternal Father, I offer thee the chalice
which Jesus held in his Divine Hands
after the Supper when he changed the wine
into his precious Blood.

Eternal Father, I offer thee the thirty
pieces of silver with which the Jews bought
Jesus.

Eternal Father, I offer thee the cords that
bound Jesus in the Garden of Olives.

Eternal Father, I offer thee the iron
gauntlet from which Jesus received a buf-
fet.

Eternal Father, I offer thee the band
' with which the Jews blindfolded the eyes
of Jesus.

Eternal Father, I offer thee the gag
which Jesus' enemies thrust into his
mouth.

Eternal Father, I offer thee all the instru-
ments which were used to torment our
Lord during the night of his bitter Pas-
sion.

Eternal Father, I offer thee the white
robe of scorn in which Herod clothed
Jesus.

Eternal Father, I offer thee the column
of the flagellation, the cords which bound
Jesus, and the fearful instruments with
which they tore his flesh.

Appendix. 191

Eternal Father, I offer thee the royal
crown of thorns, the scarlet mantle, and the
reed which he held in his Divine Hands.

Eternal Father, I offer thee the steps
which Jesus mounted and watered with
his precious Blood when Pilate showed
him to the people, saying : " Behold the
Man!"

Eternal Father, I offer thee the cords
which bound Jesus as a criminal.

Eternal Father, I offer thee the sentence
of death which was pronounced upon thy
only Son.

Eternal Father, I offer thee the rods
which were used to strike Jesus on the
road to Calvary.

Eternal Father, I offer thee the Veil of
St. Veronica upon which Jesus impressed
his Divine Features.

Eternal Father, I offer thee the ham-
mers used in the Crucifixion of Jesus.

Eternal Father, I offer thee the vase
from w^hich Jesus tasted the bitter draught.

Eternal Father, I offer thee the reed
and sponge used to present Jesus the gall
and vinegar.

Eternal Father, I offer thee the Holy
Cross of Jesus, empurpled with his blood,
and the inscription Pilate had attached
to it : " Jesus of Nazareth , King of the
Jews ! "

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Eternal Father, I offer thee the sacred
vesture of Jesus, sanctified by his tears,
sweat, and blood, and upon which the sol-
diers cast lots.

Eternal Father, I offer thee the sandals
worn by the Sacred Feet of Jesus.

Eternal Father, I offer thee the gar-
ments of Jesus, covered with blood and
divided in four parts by the soldiery.

Eternal Father, I offer thee the lance
which opened the Sacred Side of Jesus and
pierced his most loving Heart, making it-
our place of refuge.

Eternal Father, I offer thee all the in-
struments of torture used to accomplish
the Passion of thy Divine Son Jesus.

Eternal Father, I offer thee the aro-
matics and perfumes which embalmed
the Sacred Body of Jesus.

Eternal Father, I offer thee the holy
winding sheet and the bands which were
honored in shrouding the Sacred Body
of Jesus.

Eternal Father, I offer thee the holy
sepulchre which enclosed the sacred
corpse of Jesus, .the divine source of life.

Eternal Father, I offer thee all the holy
relics of thy Divine Jesus, humbly praying
thee to look upon them with complacency.
This divine look will render them more
honor than can be rendered by all angels

Appendix. 193

and saints. It will be a very worthy re-
paration for tlie profanations of which
they have been the object.

Arrest, O Divine Father, the instru-
ments of thy justice, ready to strike us!
Behold the instruments of the most Sacred
Passion of Jesus, red with his Adorable
Blood. May this sight change thy justice
to mercy, and move thee to speak peace
to France and the world.

Prayers.

I salute thee, Jesus of Nazareth, King
of the Jews. Thou art the blessed Wheat
of Nazareth, the delicious Bread of Beth-
lehem, the Lamb of God immolated at
Jerusalem. Feed us poor sinners now
and at the hour of our death. Amen.

"We give thee glory, O most amiable
Heart of Jesus, wounded by the im-
pious of all ages. As a sword they have
sharpened their tongues, and pierced thee
by their injuries, blasphemies, and sar-
casms. We invoke thee, and we celebrate
thy praises in a spirit of honor and Repa-
ration.

Eternal Father, I offer thee the most
Holy Face of thy Divine Son to appease
thy wrath. Bemember his Divine Head
has borne the thorns of our sins and has set

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itself to receive the strokes of thy justice,
of which he still bears the marks. Be-
hold these Holy Wounds ! Incessantly
they cry out to thee : Mercy, mercy, mercy
for the whole world !

Eternal Father, I offer thee the Holy
Face of Jesus for the spiritual needs of
poor sinners. It is the golden coin which
alone can cancel their debts.

H Xittle 3£jercise

IN HONOR OF THE FIVE WOUNDS.

Wound of the Right Hand. — Jesus, Son
of Mary, who hast the power to forgive
sins, grant me the remission of my faults
through the merits of thy Holy Passion.

Wound of the Left Hand. — Jesus, Son
of Mary, who art a God of union, grant
me the grace to communicate worthily.

Wound of the Left Foot. — Jesus, who
art the light of the world, deign to breathe
in my soul the spirit of the Comforter.

Wound of the Right Foot. — Jesus, Son
<of Mary, who art Infinite Mercy, cleanse
•me in thy precious Blood.

Wound of the Sacred Heart. — Jesus,
Son of Mary, who hast merited heaven for
us, grant us eternal life.

Eternal Father, I offer thee the Five

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Wounds of thy Divine Son. We beseech
thee to infuse in our souls the Divine Spirit
which proceeds from thee and him ; by the
merits of the Sacred Passion of Jesus nour-
ish our souls with the Living Bread of the
Blessed Sacrament of the Altar.

Aspirations.

Sacred Body of Jesus, that I have re-
ceived in the most Blessed Sacrament of
the Altar, preserve my soul unto eternal
life.

Jesus, Son of Mary, who hast been
crowned with cruel thorns, grant that we
may arrive at union with Thee.

Jesus, Son of Mary, who hast three times
inclined thy Divine Face to the earth in
the Garden of Olives, deign to incline to-
wards the earth of my heart, and water it
with thy tears, thy sweat, and thy precious
Bloody

Spirit of Love, Tongue of fire, impress
upon my heart the thrice Holy Name of
God.#

Spirit of Consolation, by Holy Commu-
nion fill our souls with thy gifts and fruits.

I salute thee, O Mary. Spouse of the
Holy Ghost, conjure him to come and dwell
in us.

196 Appendix.

H prater for tbe Cburcb*

O God, by thy Holy Name liave pity on
us, protect us, and save us.

O good Jesus, in thy sweet Name guard
our Sovereign Pontiff ; breathe into his
soul the spirit of the Comforter.

Jesus, thy Church is menaced with
great trials ! . . . Holy Father, by the
virtue of thy salutary Name protect the
Church of Jesus Christ. This was the last
will of thy Divine Son ; it is the holy
prayer which love prompted towards the
end of his life. Holy Father, keep in thy
Name those thou hast given me (St. John
chap, xxvii. 11).

O most holy and worthy Mother, refuge
of the Church, intercede for us and save us
by the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

St. Michael and the Holy Angels, guard
the bark of Peter ; disperse its enemies
by the Holy Cross of our Lord Jesus
Christ.

Bepottons

IN HONOR OF THE HOLY INFANT JESUS.

The Month of the Divine Infant.

On the 15th of the month Sister Saint-
Pierre celebrated the Espousals of the

Appendix. 197

Blessed Virgin with St. Joseph. The 16th
was consecrated to the mystery of the
Incarnation. The nine following days she
honored the Infant Jesus in the chaste
womb of Mary, and accompanied the
Blessed Virgin and St. Joseph in their
journey to Bethlehem. On the 25th she
celebrated the birth of the Holy Infant.
On the 26th she adored him with the shep-
herds ; on the 27th in his Circumcision
when he was named Jesus ; on the 28th
with the three kings ; on the 29th in his
Presentation in the Temple; on the 30th
in his Flight into Egypt.

The first seven days of the following
month were consecrated to the Infant
Jesus in his place of exile; she honored
there his first words, steps, actions, his
purity and simplicity. On the 8th she
celebrated the return of the Holy Family
to Nazareth.

On the 9th she contemplated Jesus be-
ginning to work with St. Joseph.

On the 10th she honored the obedience
of the Infant Jesus to his parents.

On the 11th she recalled the filial atten-
tions he showed to his Blessed Mother
and the faithful Guardian of his infancy.
The 12th was consecrated to the journey
of the Infant Jesus when at the age of
twelve years he went with Mary and

198 Appendix.

Joseph to celebrate the Pasch, and also
to the loss of the Child Jesus.-

On the 13th she adored him in the midst
of the Doctors of the Law, maintaining the
rights of his Father. On the 14th she ren-
dered homage to the Child found in the
Temple by Mary and Joseph, and his re-
turning in their company to Nazareth,
where he was subject to them.

Admirabile Women Jesu, quod est super
omne nomen. Yenite, adoremus — " The
Name which shall be called wonderful,
the Name of Jesus, is the Name which is
above every name. Oh ! come, let us wor-
ship him."

(Sister Saint-Pierre was accustomed to
repeat this beautiful invitatory thousands
of times, and received signal graces there-

by.)

prapers

IN* HONOR OF THE INFANT JESUS AND HIS
BLESSED MOTHER.

An Act of Adoration to the Incarnate Word in
the august Bosom of the Immaculate Virgin.

O Word Divine, incarnate for me, I
adore thee, and I love thee with all my
heart !

Appendix. 199

Eternal "Wisdom, come and teach us the
way to heaven !

O King of kings, come and reign over
the hearts of all men, particularly over
mine!

Come, all ye Angels, all ye men ; come,
all creatures, and unite with me in adoring
a God so humbled !

O Holy Virgin, O Blessed St. Joseph,
obtain for me such a great purity of heart
that this Divine Infant may not be obliged
to seek shelter in a stable on finding in my
soul obstacles to his graces !

May my heart be ever open to him, may
he make it his throne, and may all the
powers of my soul be submissive to him !

Open, ye Heavens ! O Mary, give us our
King and our Saviour !

Prayer to the Infant Jesus.

O Divine Infant Jesus, by the love
which impelled thee to take Flesh in the
bosom of thy Holy Mother, and by that
same love which made thee find means
to give thyself to us, I pray thee most
humbly to pardon all my sins, to destroy
in me the old man and clothe me with thy-
self, so that I may no longer live but in
thee and for thee, in honor of the abasement

200 Appendix.

of thy Divinity, which was united to our
humanity.

Offerings

IN HONOR OF THE DIVINE INFANT JESUS,

As a preparation for the twenty-fifth of each
month.

First Offering. — Eternal Father, I offer
to thy honor and glory, and for my own sal-
vation and for the salvation of the whole
world, the mystery of the Birth of our
Divine Saviour.

Gloria Patri, etc.

Second Offering. — Eternal Father, I offer
to thy honor and glory, and for my eternal
salvation, the sufferings of the most Holy
Virgin and St. Joseph in that long and
weary journey from Nazareth to Bethle-
hem. I offer thee the sorrows of their
hearts when they found no place wherein
to shelter themselves when the Saviour of
the world was to be born.

Gloria Patri, etc.

Third Offering. — Eternal Father, I offer
to thy honor and glory, and for my eternal
salvation, the sufferings of Jesus in the
stable where he was born, the cold he en-
dured, the swaddling-clothes which bound

Appendix. 201

him, the tears he shed, and his tender infant
cries.

Gloria Patri, etc.

Fourth Offering. — Eternal Father, I offer
to thy honor and glory, and for-my eternal
salvation, the pain which the Holy Child
felt in his tender Body when he submitted
to Circumcision. I offer thee that precious
Blood which then, for the first time, he
shed for the salvation of the whole human
race.

Gloria Patri, etc.

Fifth Offering. — Eternal Father, I offer
to thy honor and glory, and for my eternal
salvation, the humility, mortification, pa-
tience, charity, all the virtues of the Child
Jesus ; and I thank thee, and I love thee,
and I bless thee without end for the in-
effable mystery of the Incarnation of the
Divine Word.

Gloria Patri, etc.

V. The Word was made Flesh.

R. And dwelt amongst us.

Let us Pray.

O God, whose only-begotten Son was
made manifest to us in the substance of our
flesh, grant, we beseech thee, that through
him, whom we acknowledge to be like unto
ourselves, our souls may be inwardly re-

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newed. Who liveth and reigneth with thee
for ever and ever. Amen.

(An Indulgence of one year to all the
faithful who, with contrite heart and de-
votion, in public or in private, on any of
the nine days preceding the twenty-fifth of
the month, shall recite these five Offerings
with the versicle and prayer.)

There is no other name under Heaven
given to men whereby we must be saved.
(Acts iv. 12.)

In the name of Jesus let every knee
bow, of things in Heaven, of things on
earth, and of things under the earth, and
let every tongue confess that our Lord
Jesus Christ is in the glory of God the
Father. (Phil. ii. 10.)

Explanations of the Devotion to the Little
Gospel of the Holy Name of Jesus.

Our Lord himself teaches us to invoke his Holy
Name : " Whatsoever you shall ask the Father in
my name shall be given to you." St. Paul says:
" Whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord
shall be saved." The victory gained over the demon
by our Lord, and expressed by his Name of Jesus,
which means Saviour, being a grace drawn from his
Sacred Heart, its image is affixed to the little sachet

Appendix. 203

containing the Gospel of the Holy Name of Jesus, as
a seal is applied to a reliquary to guarantee the au-
thenticity of the relic. In honor of the five letters
of the Name of Jesus, and through the virtue of his
Five Wounds, our Lord has promised to grant five
special graces to those who embrace this devotion
with faith and piety.

1. He will preserve them from lightning.

2. From the snares and malice of the demon.

3. From a sudden and unprovided death.

4. He will make them walk with facility in the
way of virtue.

5. He will grant them final perseverance.

Our Lord is pleased to manifest the power of his
Holy Name by many other spiritual and temporal
favors, such as conversions, cures, etc. This little
sachet is particularly efficacious with dying sinners.
The devotion to the Holy Name of Jesus is connected
with that of the Reparation for Blasphemy by the
cultus of the Holy Face.

(Extract from the Life of Sister Saint-Pierre, Car-
melite of Tours, France, written by herself, and
published with the approbation of the Archbishops
of Tours and New Orleans.)

With the approbation of the Most Rev. Archbishop
Gibbons.

This Gospel, and all else connected with the Con-
fraternity of the Holy Face, can be found at 184
Barrack Street, New Orleans, La.

Jesus, be to me a Jesus !

Prayers to excite Confidence in the Invoca-
tion of the Adorable Name of Jesus.

" And after eight days were accomplish-
ed, that the Child should be circumcised,
his name was called Jesus, which was called

204 Appendix.

by the angel before he was conceived in the
womb." (Gospel of the Feast of the Cir-
cumcision : Luke, ch. ii. v. 21.)

" For there is no other name under Hea-
ven given to men whereby we must be
saved." (Acts of the Apostles, ch. iv.
v. 12.)

Divine Saviour! through the victory
thou hast gained over Satan by taking the
Name of Jesus, deliver us from his snares.

Jesus, Son of God ! have mercy on us !

Jesus, Son of the Yirgin Mary ! have
mercy on us !

O Jesus and Mary ! be propitious to us ! *

Make us, O Lord ! to have a continual
fear and love of thy Holy JSTanie, because
thou dost never abandon the care of
those who, by thy grace, cease not to love
thee ; who livest and reignest, one God,
world without end, Amen.

Examined and approved.

. Gentry, Vic. -Gen.

Tours, July 24, 1848.

When Jesus was named,

Satan, conquered, was disarmed.

* An indulgence of twenty-five days for invoking the Holy
Name of Jesus and Mary ; fifty days1 indulgence to those who
wear the Blue Scapular, plenary indulgence at the hour of
death 5 twenty days for reverently bowing the head when pro-
nouncing these sacred names ; an. indulgence of fifty days as
often as"two persons salute each other, the one saying, in any
language whatever, " Praised be Jesus and Mary " ; and the
other replying, S1 Now and for ever." (Pius IX., Sept. 26, 1864.)

Appendix. 205

Prayer to the Holy Name.

May the Adorable Name of Jesus be the
sweet and daily music of my soul and the
joy of my heart ; and when, in the agony
and cold sweat of death, I give the last
look for mercy, may the parting sigh of
my soul be, Jesus ! Jesus ! Amen.

praters

IN HONOR OF THE MATERNITY OF THE
BLESSED VIRGIN MARY.

O most holy and worthy Mother of God,
impart abundantly to all mankind, thy chil-
dren, the milk of grace and mercy.

Hail, Mary, conceived without sin, mys-
terious vine which has produced the Di-
vine Grape, destined to be crushed in the
wine-press of the Cross, whence issued a
sacred wine that was deposited in the pre-
cious vase of thy Immaculate Heart, to be
distilled upon the children whose Mother
thou didst become upon Calvary's mount. ,

O Divine Infant Jesus, I adore thee on
thy Blessed Mother's bosom. Yes, O Di-
vine Infant, in this state of humiliation
and littleness thou art as worthy of our
love, our homage, and adoration as when
thou didst cure the sick, raise the dead

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to life, and command the winds and
waves.

Here do I contemplate thee, silent and
unknown, adoring thy Eternal Father's
counsels upon thy life and dolorous Pas-
sion. Already is the Cross planted in thy
Heart ; thou dost only await the hour
marked by thy Heavenly Father for thee
to fulfil his will.

Hail, Queen of Martyrs ! whose precious
blood, blanched by maternal piety, flowed
for fifteen months from thy virginal bosom
to fill the sacred veins of the King of Mar-
tyrs.

O holy Virgin, how pure and admirable
thou art ! The Holy Ghost seems ever oc-
cupied with thee. At thy birth I hear him
saying in his Divine Council: " Our Sis-
ter is little. . . . What shall we do with
our Sister in the day when she is to he
spoken to ? "

O mystery ineffable ! He who eternally
reposes in the Bosom of the Father rests at
the same time in the bosom of an humble
Virgin. I adore thee, most Holy Infant
Jesus, in that royal shrine surrounded by
roses and lilies ; my soul experiences joy
inexpressible at beholding thee dwelling
in that House of Gold built by Supreme
Wisdom.

Come forth, O Divine Jesus, from the

Appendix. 207

virginal prison where love holds thee cap-
tive; give me the consolation of beholding
and adoring thee, and in a state that I may
embrace thee. Let us rejoice ; the day of
joy hath come at last, and the angels sing
in heavenly strains, " Glory be to God on
high, and on earth peace to men of good
will ! " The hour of man's salvation has
dawned. Behold his Saviour, born of Mary.
O earth, thou didst become a heaven on
that day eternally memorable. O glorious
Mother of God, my hopes are realized, my
yearning satisfied, now that I find Jesus,
my Redeemer, in thy holy arms, resting
upon thy maternal bosom, nourished with
thy virginal milk. I hear the heavenly
Spouse felicitating thee on thy blessed
maternity. Yes, thou art beautiful in the
eyes of thy Spouse, because thou hast pre-
served intact the beautiful flower of vir-
ginity. While angels in heaven sing the
eternal canticle of the thrice Holy God, we
on earth sing the virginal canticle of the
Mother thrice a virgin. O grandeur of
Mary ! O incomparable privilege ! O mys-
tery of love !

Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is
with thee ; blessed art thou amongst wo-
men, and blessed is the Fruit of thy womb,
Jesus, whom thou didst nourish during fif-
teen months with thy virginal milk.

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We give thee thanks, O Blessed Virgin.

Mary, for the great love with which thou
didst suckle the King of Heaven, and we
bless thy maternal tenderness.

Eternal Father, we offer thee the Incar-
nate Word, a Babe at his Blessed Mother's
breast, rendering thee by this lowly action
perfect praise for the honor and glory of
thy Holy Name.

O most holy and sweet Mother of God,
remember thou art my Mother and that I
am the little sister of the Holy Infant Jesus.

Thy Divine Son has left upon thy bosom
the charming virtues of his Holy Infancy,
and he sends me to gather this celestial
dew, which will fill my soul with purity,
innocence, and simplicity.

Receive, O Virgin and Mother, these fif-
teen salutations in memory of the fifteen
months during which thou didst nurse the
Lamb of God, born in the stable of Beth-
lehem.

O holy and august Mother, what dost
thou do ? " I give my milk to him who
hath given me being." And what will be-
come of this milk? "It will become his
Flesh and the Blood of his veins. This
Flesh which I give him will suffer the tor-
ments of his Passion, and this Blood ob-
tained from me will be shed upon the Cross
for the salvation of sinners."

Appendix. 209

O Angels of Heaven, wliat think ye of
this prodigy ? It was once your mission to
give man delicious food on earth by show-
ering manna from Heaven, and this was
truly a great miracle. But behold now,
with admiration inexpressible, the Virgin
Mother, your Queen, nourishing God him-
self, her Creator and yours.

O Divine Blood of Jesus, refresh the
earth that it may bring forth elect souls.

(Our Lord promised that all who would thus
honor hini should receive great blessings, that they
would be especially assisted by his Blessed Mother,
and that he would grant all their petitions. Holy
Church keeps the Feast of the Maternity of the Bless-
ed Virgin on the second Sunday in October.)

Sister 5aint>fiMerre's praper

TO THE QUEEN OF CARMEL FOR THE
HOUSES OF HER ORDER.

" O Holy Mary, sprinkle the flowers of
Carmel with thy fruitful grace, that they
may thus become so strongly rooted in this
land of benediction as never to be eradicat-
ed by the demon."

The O Gloriosa Virginum seventy-two
times in honor of her Divine Maternity.

Come, Jesus, come ! Sit Nomen Domini
henedietum.

210 Appendix.

Mother most pure, pray for us. O
Mary, Mother of God, source of all our
joy for time and eternity, be thou our
strength. Lead us to the arms of thy Di-
vine Child and teach us his winning ways-.
When earth and sense shall fail show us
thy gentle face, and in thy pure embrace
let us meU the merciful gaze of our Sa-
viour Jesus. Amen.

On the 19th of September, 1846, Our
Blessed Lady appeared upon an Alpine
mountain called La Salette to humble little
shepherds named Maximin and Melanie,
two innocent children through whose
mouths she ■ reproached " her people " of
France for their blasphemy and impiety.
Tears were flowing from her eyes ; the cru-
cifix was fixed upon her heart. She was
surrounded by the instruments of the Pas-
sion, and the cruel hammer and sharp pin-
cers were the ornaments of her maternal
bosom.

Novena to Our Lady of La Salette.

O my Blessed Lady Queen of Heaven, to
thee and to thy sacred keeping, into the

Appendix. 211

bosom of thy mercy, this day and every
day until the hour of my death, I commend
my body and soul ; my every hope, joy, and
sorrow, my life and the end of my life, I
commend to thee, that every act may be ac-
cording to thy will and that of thy Divine
Son. Amen.

Nine " Hail Marys," with the following
Aspiration after each :

Our Lady of La Salette, refuge of sin-
ners, our reconciler with God, pray without
ceasing for your children who have recourse
to thee. Amen.

Our Lady of La Salette, pray for us.
Amen.

Exercise in Honor of Our Lady of La Salette.

1. I salute thee, blessed soul of Mary,
image of the Divinity. Ave Maria!

2. I revere thee, sacred body of Mary,
living temple of the Holy Spirit. Ave
Maria !

3. 1 bless thee, precious blood of Mary,
from which was formed the Body of the
Man -God. Ave Maria!

4. I kiss with profound respect the chari-
table feet of Mary, which did not disdain
to descend upon the mountain of La Sa-
lette for the salvation of France. Ave
Maria J

212 Appendix.

5. I exalt thee, most pure hands of Mary,
who for the first time offered to the Eternal
Father the Host without stain. Ave Ma-
ria !

6. I venerate thee, chaste bosom of Mary,
as the sanctuary of God, sacred ostensorium
of the Incarnate Word. Ave Maria !

7. I invoke thee, Immaculate Heart of
Mary, ardent furnace of charity. Ave
Maria !

8. I solicit thee, blessed ears of Mary,
always attentive and propitious to the cries
of the unfortunate. Ave Maria !

, 9. I admire thee, beautiful eyes of Mary,
full of sweetness and compassion, always
open to our needs and ready to supply
them. May we experience the virtue of
thy charitable gaze. Ave Maria !

10. I regard thee with love, incomparable
mouth of Mary, which pleads our cause
without ceasing before the Sovereign
Judge, and continually obtains favorable
judgment. Ave Maria!

11. I contemplate thee with joy, resplen-
dent face of Mary, radiant with beauty
and glory. Give to thy children the kiss
of maternal love as a pledge of the treaty
of peace, which we pray thee to obtain
from a God irritated on account of our
crimes. Ave Maria !

12. I salute thee, rainbow of mercy in

Appendix. 213

the day of storm ; appear before our terri-
fied eyes and prevent the thunderbolt
striking our guilty heads., Ave Maria !
Memorare.

Our Lady of the Holy Name of God,
may thou be blessed in all times and all
places.

(For connection between the dultus of
the Holy Face and La Salette, see Life of
Sister Saint-Pierre, page 74.)

fovty SDa^s' pjaper

FOR THE NEEDS OF THE CHURCH AND
STATE.

Commenced by M. Dupont in 1843.

May God arise and his enemies be dis-
persed ! Say three Pater JVosters, three
Ave Marias, and three Gloria Patris.

St. Michael and all the holy Angels,
pray and combat for us.

St. Peter and all the holy Apostles, in-
tercede for us.

St. Ignatius, St. Teresa, and all the in-
habitants of the Heavenly Jerusalem, pray
for us.

Aspiration during the Day.

May thy Holy Name, O Lord, be
known and blessed in all times and places.

214 Appendix.

Blessed Yirgin Mary, reign over us with
thy Divine Son Jesus. Amen.

(This devotion is made from July 16,
Feast of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, until
August 25, Feast of St. Louis, King and
Protector of France.)

Salutation

TO THE HOLY VEIL OF ST. VERONICA,

The greater Belie of the Vatican Basilica,

Antiphojst.

My heart speaks to thee ; my eyes seek
thee; yes, Lord, I will always seek thy
Face. Do not hide thy Face from me ; do
not turn away from thy servant.

V. O Lord, thou hast shown to me the
light of thy Face.

H. Thou hast given joy to my heart.

Let us Pray.

Grant in thy mercy, O Lord, that my
soul, created by thy wisdom and governed
by thy providence, may be filled with the
light of thy Holy Face, through our Lord
Jesus Christ. Amen.

Appendix, 216

Canticles

IN HONOR OF THE HOLY FACE.

From the French of Sister Saint- Pierre

BY M. E. HENRY.

Canticls First.

From out the sanctuary's silence .

What sighs are those I hear?
What bitter cry is breaking

From thy soul, 0 Saviour dear?
"Alas! the whole world wounds me

With blasphemy's swift dart;
My love hath lost its power

O'er man's forgetful heart.

u With deadly hatred banded,

Schism walks forth to-day,
The holiest laws defying,

Impatient of their sway ;
And my Face, that highest rapture

In the vision of the blest,
With a constant memory cruel

Of their outrage is impressed.

11 0 ye to whose brave spirits

My glory is so near,
To whom my victory eometh,

My triumph is so dear,

216 Appendix.

Ye are my cherished spouses ;

My name e'er holy keep,
Asking ever for the guilty

Pardon and sorrow deep.

IV.

" Of old, before my Passion,

Veronica, with love's great power,
Clad with courage, seemed to soften

All the anguish of that hour.
Another Veronica I now long for

Who, adoring night and day,
On my bleeding brow unceasing

The veil of her true love shall lay.

"And Veronica, j;he faithful,

My grateful memory knew;
Of my Holy Face for ever

She kept the Image true.
To ye also I now leave it;

Let your hearts be impressed deep,
And with love's tender homage

A fervent incense keep.

VI.

" In this Countenance divine

The Godhead is concealed;
'Tis the mirror where his beauty

^Eternal is revealed.
Ah ! Christian soul, if only

Thou knewest the holy spell
Of that Face, what supreme rapture

Would in thy spirit swell !

VII.

" On the Brow behold the Father,
From the lips list to the Son,

In the eves' pure light the Spirit
Of the Holy Three-in-One.

Appendix, 217

And these sacred tresses, countless,

The symbols seem to be
Of the attributes surrounding

The God-like Trinity.

" This Holy Face reflecting

My Blest Humanity
Is for thee the precious ransom

Paid for thine eternity.
None have ever met denial

Who looked to its priceless worth,
That Face of treasures holiest

That await the elect of earth.

IX.

"Alas! blasphemy's outrage

Wounds me on every side;
Have I no brave defenders

In whom I may confide?
Avenge me, faithful virgins,

My cruel wrongs repair ;
Be yoursthe gentle vengeance

Of love and tears and prayer.

"Within your hearts my Image

Deeply shall ye enshrine,
Till its beauty shall enkindle

The fires of love divine.
And this Face for e'er adored

The sign and the seal shall be
Of the grace which shall be thy greeting

In a blest eternity."

218 Appendix.

Canticle Second,
i.

Lord Jesus, our God, our Brother,

We have grieved thee, 0 Saviour above;

Before thy Face, God-like and lonely,
We pour out our tears and our love.

Refrain : Face ever adored,

Behold 'neath thee now
A people most sinful
In penitence bow.

See the Brow, where the thorns are piercing,
And the Face— ah! God, is it thine?

The tears and the blood of Redemption
Are veiling those Eyes divine.
Face ever adored, etc.

" We have seen him," crieth the prophet,
"Without beauty, deserted, alone,

As a reed all bruised by the tempest,
As a leper cast forth from his own."
Face ever adored, etc.

IV.

Of the sons of men the fairest,
Bright Mirror of splendors divine.

Behold him, for thou art, 0 sinner,
His tormentor ; the lashes are thine.
Face ever adored, etc.

Holy Face, on that night most cruel
Thou with infamous blows wast stained;

The Most High, the God thrice holy,
By the fury of wretches profaned.
Face ever auored, etc.

Appendix. 219

VI.

We were there ; our hands have wounded
Our Christ. Ah ! sinners, 'tis true ;

We were the faithless companions,
False friends — we deserted him, too.
Face ever adored, etc.

VII.

Forgive us, 0 Jesus, our Victim !

Forgive them that slight thee, we pray;
When before thee we kneel in sorrow,

Thy Face, Lord, turn not away.
Face ever adored, etc.

Holy Face, our days and our vigils,
Our vows and our tears, are thine ;

The world seeks its false pleasures,
We are shielding the Face divine.
Face ever adored, etc.

IX.

We shield thee, and thou wilt shield us —

Thy sorrows to us belong ;
Our brows are pure when thou lookest,

And near thee our hearts are strong.
Face ever adored, etc.

Face Divine, Face ever desired,
Our steps turn ceaseless to thee ;

Face of God, for ever adored,
Where thou waitest us soon let us be.
Face ever adored, etc.

220 Appendix.

Canticle to St. Peter Repenting.

Before the Altar, where the soul repentant.
Beholding God, with sin and sorrow crushed,

Remembers and adores Love immolated,
The heart dejected, powerless, is hushed.

First Refrain : Oh ! holy tears,

Heart-voices flow,
Telling its fears,
Regrets, and woe.

Ah ! fruitful tears, how oft our souls have sought ye,

How oft we waited for ye, all in vain ;
Bring forth from their deep sources, 0 mighty Pa-
tron,
Of love repentant bring our tears, blest rain.
Oh ! holy tears, etc.

in.

Thrice in that night of blasphemy had Peter
Faltered, and, alas ! his Lord denied.

Ah ! sinners, let us weep — weep for ourselves

And for the countless sins we cannot hide;

Oh ! holy tears, etc.

IV.

When Peter saw its look on him as a sinner,
He was the first conquest of the Holy Face ;

Already wounded but divine for ever,
It blest and pardoned him with mercy's grace.
Oh! holy tears, etc.

Appendix. 221

And when his Lord had once looked on Peter
Grief smote him, and, with swift, repentant cry,

He wept for his sin ; and those dews penitential
Dwelt ever in his eyes till life's last sigh.
Oh ! holy tears, etc.

VI.

But one blest day the stream that o'er his spirit
In sorrow flowed a sweeter measure traced ;

The triple sin was blotted out for ever —
Was by the triple oath of love effaced.
Oh ! holy tears, etc.

Second Refrain : Oh ! sweet tears, flow ;
Come, fervor true,
Your power show,
And our hearts subdue.

VII.

" Thou knowest, Lord, I love thee," vows the Apostle,
And from Christ's feet arises, all the weight

The supreme burden bearing of Chief Shepherd ;

His tears of love crown him and consecrate !

Oh ! sweet tears, flow, etc.

VIII.

Thou who thyself didst know one human weakness,
Thou who thy God's forgiveness sweet didst taste,

Thou whom he vested with his wondrous powers
To open for us Heaven's riches, haste !
Oh ! sweet tears, flow, etc.

IX.

The Church, alas ! like Christ at the Tribunal,
Ever on dread Calvary's Mount appears.

Around our Mother's feet, then, let us sorrow ;
But let Hope strengthen, make sweet our tears.
Oh ! sweet tears, flow, etc.

222 Appendix.

For we have loved her, holy Church immortal,
Where thou dost live again, the Three-in-One.

She keeps thy faith ; help us, 0 God ! to give her

Our tears and blood, even as thou hast done.

Oh ! sweet tears, flow, etc.

H IRbstbm.

(Pope John XII. , elected Sovereign Pontiff at Avig-
non in 1316, wrote the following prayer in honor of
the Most Holy Veil, and granted an Indulgence of
twenty-five years and twenty-five quarantines to the
faithful who would recite it. To those who cannot
read the same Indulgence is granted provided five
Our Fathers, five Hail Marys, and the Gloria be
said for the same intention.)

Hail, token of love to Veronica given !

Stamped divinely on linen, without spot or stain,
Pure and bright with the splendor that comes but
from Heaven ;

0 features most sacred of Jesus, all hail !

ii.

Hail, glory of earth, of thy faithful the Mirror !

'Tis to see thy blest Face Thrones and Virtues
aspire !
Send afar from us all the dark stains of error,

That with thee at last we may find our desire.

Appendix. 223

in.

Hail, features most sacred! hail, Face of my Saviour!

Oh ! shed on us here the sweet light of thy love.
Prom on High thou receiv'dst the Omnipotent favor

Of freeing our senses from all but thy love.

IV,

Hail, rampart of Faith ! be with us for ever ;

Before thee dread Heresy's poisonous dart
Is dispelled. Bless thy people; oh! let us ne'er sever

Our eyes from thy features, our love from thy
Heart.

Hail, refuge in sorrow, and help in our way !

Through this lifetime of danger oh ! be our tried
friend ;
Call us ever, blessed Image, to Heaven away,

Where thy radiant Face beckons us to ascend.

VI.

Hail, Jesus Divine ! hail, diamond most bright !

O'er the light of the firmament shines thy soft ray.
God himself formed these lines, beauteous, fair in
his sight,
And without mortal aid bid these blest Features
to stay.

VII.

Hail, reflection unchanging, of joy without end !

The glory Divine which on thee appears
Is ever as pure as when first to us given ;

0 Beauty e'er new, thou fad'st not in years.

224 Appendix.

VIII.

Hail, Essence of Majesty, Sacred yet kind !

Thy Face the calm impress of purity bears;
Oh ! let us not Justice but sweet 'Mercy find,

And grant us in Heaven a rest from our fears I

IX.

Oh ! be our loved Refuge, our Help, and our Star ;

Be a soft, soothing balm to our hearts, till above,
In the calm rest eternal of thy Heaven afar,

We may praise thee for ever and ever in love.

Amen.

Let us Pray.

Give joy to the countenance of thy ser-
vants, O my Lord, and save our souls from
the darkness of hell, that, being protected
by the contemplation of thy Adorable
Face, we may trample on all carnal desires,
and see thee, O Lord Jesus, our Saviour,
face to face, without fear, when the clouds
of Heaven will open to admit us to thy
judgment. Amen.

Appendix. 225

H TRbstbm*

(The following prayer was composed by Pope
Clement VI. at Avignon. His Holiness granted an
indulgence of three years to all those who would re-
cite it before a Vera Uffigies, or authentic fac-simile
of the Veil of St. Veronica.)

0 venerated Features, hail !

On the bleeding altar of the Cross,
Alas ! how altered and how pale !

Thou look'st so sorrowful and sad,
Staining with thy Sweat and Blood
This precious Veil and wood !

ii.

Token of thy Passion sad,

This Veil is brightest even now ;
'Twas stamped and given for our Redemption,

Inflame my soul, sweet Jesus, teach
My heart the fire of thy love ;
Reveal to us thy Features fair above.

in.

Oh ! grant me, at the end of life,
Of God the beauty for ever to see ;

Give to my then transported soul
The bliss of Heaven's felicity. Amen.

V. Make the light of thy Countenance,
O Lord, to shine upon ns,

i?. Thou hast given gladness to my
heart.

226 Appendix.

V. Save thy servant.
Ii. Trusting in thee, O my God.
V. Save me in thy mercy, O Lord.
i?. Let me not be confounded, for I have
called upon thy Name.

V. Make thy Face to shine upon thy
servant.

R. And teach me thy way upon earth.
V. O Lord God of Hosts, convert us.
i?. And show thy Face, and we shall be
saved.

V. O Lord, hear my prayer.
It. And let my cry come unto thee.

Let us Pray.

O God, who hast shed upon us the light
of thy Face, and who wast pleased, through
Veronica, to leave us thy Holy Image im-
printed on this veil as an eternal token of
thy love, grant us by thy Passion and
Cross the grace so to honor, adore and
glorify thee here below, through this mys-
tical Veil, that we may without fear meet
thy gaze when thou wilt receive and judge
us in Heaven. Amen.

O Eternal and Omnipotent God, whose
Divine Features are revealed through this
precious Image to thy people here as-
sembled, grant us the pardon of our sins,
and direct our actions, words, senses, and

Appendix. 227

faculties. We trust in thy mercy, O Lord,
who liveth and reigneth with thee in the
unity of the Holy Ghost, one God, world
without end. Amen.

Devout a&bress to tbe Sacrefc jface*

O Face Divine !
0 Face most sorrowful yet so benign!
So beauteous still in grief, towards me incline !

0 Sacred Eyes !
On which the weight of dreaded anguish lies,
That look must break the heart which Christ denies.

0 Lips so meek !
tlnless their all- absolving word I seek,
Those lips one day eternal doom will speak.

0 Sacred Face !
Which mortal hand has dared with prayer to trace,
Thee on my heart with throbs of awe I place.

0 Face Divine !
Give me of love returned some blissful sign;
O Face Divine, in grief towards me incline.

Mr '

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